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TerminusDB
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TerminusDB is the company blog at terminusdb.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2019, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 78 times, most often “Show HN: TerminusDB – An open source in-memory graph database”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (29) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly cite TerminusDB, a Prolog and Rust graph database with git-style versioning, when discussing versioned data and RDF. Its docs and blog get occasional pointers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 29 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
TerminusDB is the open-source knowledge graph database with git-like version control for graphs and vectors. Branch, merge, diff and hybrid search any commit.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: TerminusDB – An open source in-memory graph database15 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2019-10-11
- /docs/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-10-06
- Are we wrong about Web3?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-29
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-23
- Entity Resolution with AI: DBLP and ACM Publication Benchmark2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-06
What Hacker News says?
https://terminusdb.com https://www.categoricaldata.net - - - - "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698
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on “Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?”Submitted Show HN: TerminusDB – An open source in-memory graph database as a story · 231 points
HN discussionIf you are interested to one step beyond, you can check out https://terminusdb.com/docs/terminusdb/#/ which uses RDF to represent (knowledge) graphs (and has revision control).
Comment linking /docs/terminusdb/
on “Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge”Submitted We Love GPLv3, but Are Switching License to Apache 2.0 as a story · 159 points
HN discussion"less power" definitely depends on what you value when comparing Git against real databases, e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/984707/what-are-the-file... There is at least one database that exists which does support a Git-like DAG for transaction-time temporality: https://terminusdb.com/ It should also be pointed out that "temporal databases" usually offer a lot more besides a linear transaction-time history…
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on “Git is too hard”Submitted Show HN: TerminusHub, Distributed Revision Control for Structured Data as a story · 81 points
HN discussionYeah, I guess it is pretty mainstream :) Though another view I keep hearing is that LLMs are going to replace all jobs in 5 years, which quite frankly is disconnected from reality. Even assuming that we could create a ML model that could replace a human (which I think the current paradigm is insufficient after this[0] discussion), there's still the matter of building data centers, manufacturing chips, and it would n…
Comment linking /blog/vector-database-and-vector-embeddings/
on “Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o”Submitted Are we wrong about Web3? as a story · 50 points
HN discussionTerminusDB is a graph database that supports versioning https://terminusdb.com/
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on “Make the “semantic web” web 3.0 again – with the help of SQLite”Submitted GraphQL RDF Bridge in TerminusDB Using Rust's Juniper Library as a story · 31 points
HN discussionTypeDb is a practical Datalog-based database system [1] (with a different syntax). TerminusDb is a project in a similar vein [2], but actually an RDF store at its core. If you want to experiment with the connections between Datalog, relational algebra, and SQL, check out the Datalog Educational System. And if you want to jump into the theory, Foundations of Databases (the "Alice book") is very thorough but relativel…
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on “Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?”Submitted TerminusDB Internals: Mutation in a Graph Database as a story · 25 points
HN discussionIt seems to me that we need local and sync for this to work well. Make your changes locally and either sync behind the scenes automatically or when you push 'commit'. Many applications (like notion and a bunch of the other browser based applications) go the cheap SaaS route. One central database behind a web service and every frontend only displays an instantaneous view of some part of the data. That's not collabora…
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on “Notion Timeline View”Submitted Show HN: TerminusDB 4.0 'Data and Content Management in a Box' as a story · 19 points
HN discussionTerminusDB and Hub (co-founder here) is offline first open source data collaboration software. We built the service so you can work offline for as long as you want and then resync when you're online again. We always felt this was the most important aspect of collaboration - you don't want to just update a common live view like google sheets, you want to go away make mistakes, fix them and merge when ready. We are al…
Comment linking /hub/
on “What if we had Local-First Software?”Submitted 20 years from now non-graph databases will be niche and legacy applications as a story · 9 points
HN discussionJSON-LD has some traction, but the author seems to prefer a slightly different syntax. I don't see a material difference, but I'm curious to know what others think. -- https://w3c.github.io/json-ld-bp/#contexts -- https://w3c.github.io/json-ld-bp/#example-example-typed-rela... -- https://terminusdb.com/docs/index/terminusx-db/reference-gui...
Comment linking /docs/index/terminusx-db/reference-guides/schema
on “The semantic web is dead – Long live the semantic web”Submitted Big Graph – Ingesting over 17B triples at 13.57 bytes per triple as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThere's a trend of versioned databases that could address these issues. I've seen at least Dolt [1] for relational: "Dolt is a data format and a database. The Dolt database provides a command line interface and a MySQL compatible Server for reading and writing data." ... and TerminusDB [2] for graphs: "TerminusDB is an open-source knowledge graph database that provides reliable, private & efficient revision control…
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on “Stored Procedures as a Back End”Submitted Graph Databases: TerminusDB vs. Neo4j as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> Datomic Cloud is slow, expensive, resource intensive, designed in the baroque style of massively over-complicated CloudFormation astronautics. Hard to diagnose performance issues. Impossible to backup. You should give TerminusDB a go ( https://terminusdb.com/ ), it's really OSS, the cloud version is cheap, fast, there are not tons of baroque settings, and it's easy to backup using clone. TermiusDB is a graph datab…
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on “Datomic Is Now Free”Submitted The Mule Release: TerminusDB 10.1 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAuthor is CTO of TerminusDB ( https://terminusdb.com/ ), which is a more graphy version of Dolt! Check it out.
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on “What if Git worked with programming languages?”Submitted AI Entity Resolution: Bridging Records Across Human Languages as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> ...there are great decentralized version control systems like Pijul/Git/Fossil and many more that check every requirement that I have, but they are built to work with textual data and are therefore unsuited to be a database backend of a graphical application. > I basically want a DVCS that doesn't operate on text files, but on a proper data model like relational algebra or algebraic datatypes. Prolog + git. Storin…
Comment linking /docs/schema
on “I Want Decentralized Version Control for Structured Data”Submitted Show HN: TerminusCMS – New Headless CMS for Devs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI went to a meetup on TerminusDB. It seemed like a cool project and quite mature. https://terminusdb.com/
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on “I Want Decentralized Version Control for Structured Data”Submitted Open source critical asset management system to help with climate resilience as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTerminusHub is a database filled with databases (for collaboration): https://terminusdb.com/hub/
Comment linking /hub/
on “Database of Databases”Submitted Easy Versioning CSVs in a Database (with powerful query) as a story · 3 points
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