Time for the opening shot of a series about Semantic Technology , and in particular contrasting-and-comparing the opposing (but perhaps ultimately complementary) camps of: RDF Triple Stores , aka Triples-Based Graphs. For example, Blazegraph or Apache Jena (Labeled) Property Graphs . For example, Neo4j or Blazegraph (For this article, I'll assume that you have at least a passing acquaintance with both. Here is background info on Triplestores and Property Graphs ) It’s my opinion that modeling in terms of Subject/Predicate/Object triples (aka RDF ) might be appealing to mathematicians or philosophers for its minimalist foundation (though a lot of baroque add-on’s quickly come out of the closet!) Modeling in terms of (Labeled) Property Graphs might be appealing to computer scientists, because such graphs appear more usable and less clunky once you start actually doing something with them. Perhaps because I straddle both the Math and CS camps, I’m currently on t