what about (SWI) Prolog as NoSQL platform?

Question

I'd like to see (SWI)Prolog advertised as a NoSQL 'serious contender'.

(SWI)Prolog has awesome data bindings features, and lot of power - of course - to write logic against such big data.

With recent PLGI contribution, writing a sophisticated Gnome GUI has become really easy... What features are most expected from NoSQL fellows ? How does reactive CRUD of RDF sounds ?

I have already tested PLGI running several Gnome interfaces - standard like GtkClutter, or self written like graph_gtk (a graph editor, I'm porting this from graph-gtk, while learning native GIntrospection and GObject/GtkWidgets basics... I think I'm ready to bind Gtk - or generally GObjects - in a declarative way).

Answer 1

Does library(persistency) do what you want? It's single-user and doesn't scale across multiple nodes; adding multi-user should be fairly straight-forward (e.g., using library(http/http_server)) but scaling to multiple nodes would be some work (e.g., could use techniques from Erlang's mnesia, or a design similar to Google's Bigtable).

Another alternative would be to base the database off the Prolog interface to an RDF database.