1 Reply Latest reply on Mar 13, 2014 8:03 PM by alwu-Oracle

    Sync between RDF store and relational table

    HansC
    HansC Mar 13, 2014 10:01 PM

      I start up this question in a new thread as it goes into a different problem domain,

       

      One of the option to model the object attributes is to store attributes in a separate relational table and use a SQL to join the graph query results. Now here is a situation, if we want to join, we need to keep some reference key in the RDF datastore, so that they can join together. But it comes out a issue, how we sync the data? Suppose we keep a user node in RDF with property user ID and we keep all other user info in relational table. When we do join, we can join by user ID. But if we delete that user record in relational table, most likely RDF will not delete that user node in graph datastore. Am I correct on this point or Oracle has some sort of way to maintain the data sync?

       

      Thanks.

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        • 1. Re: Sync between RDF store and relational table
          alwu-Oracle
          alwu-Oracle Mar 13, 2014 8:03 PM (in response to HansC)

          Hi HansC,

           

          Sorry for the delayed response.

           

          When a row is removed from a relational table, its corresponding/related triple(s) will NOT be removed from a RDF model(s) unless there are some custom logic to handle that.

          For example, one can define a trigger on the relational table to handle the data synchronization. Another way is to leverage the existing change tracking

          mechanism (Flashback query, Golden Gate etc.) to keep the data in sync.

           

          Thanks,

           

          Zhe Wu