Review on Stardog by Patrick Matin

The ease with which you can query multiple tables in one query without having SQL errors or syntax issues makes it easy for me as an analyst who doesn't have much experience writing queries against large amounts of historical transactional/data warehouse-type datasets. I wish there was more documentation about how best practices should be applied when using this product instead of just tutorials explaining basic use cases like querying by date range. For example, if someone asked questions similar to mine (how do we efficiently retrieve our target dataset) then they would receive no useful information from my answer other than "it's not bad." Instead, perhaps some sort of tutorial could walk them through what tools are available so they know where else to look next? That way at least somebody will benefit! We were trying to build out analytics products and make things easier for users but also help us understand trends across different user segments better. This tool has made doing both jobs very streamlined since everything gets stored into RDF triples. I like that Stardog can be used to perform a variety of tasks, from simple searches to complex queries, and that it does so in a way that's easy to use and understand. There aren't a lot of bells and whistles, and it's not as customizable as some of its competitors, but it does what it needs to do. It's good for basic queries, and can be used to build more complex queries.