I recently tweeted that the ZDNet article Back to the future: Does graph database success hang on query language? was the best overview of the graph database world(s) that I’d seen so far, and I also warned that many such “overviews” were often just Neo4j employees plugging their own product. (The Neo4j company is actually called Neo Technology.) The most extreme example of this is the free O’Reilly book Graph Databases, which is free because it’s being given away…

I enjoy writing short tutorials to get people started on something that may have seemed intimidating to them before, and I thought it might be fun to write up something that isn’t related to software but that I have thought a lot about in the last 15 years: jazz bass playing.

I finally had a chance to play with rdfstore-js by Antonio Garrote and it was all pretty straightforward. I already had node.js installed, so a simple npm install js installed his library. Then, I was ready to include the library in a JavaScript script that would read some RDF and query it with SPARQL. I just ran my script from the command line, but node.js fans know that they can take advantage of this library’s features in much more interesting application architectures. (Before I go on,…