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Technical blogs around data collaboration, data management, and building collaborative applications.
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Technical blogs around data collaboration, data management, and building collaborative applications.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/terminusdb/technical-blogs
- Owner: terminusdb
- Created: 2022-02-14T11:32:08.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-06-01T08:20:21.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-07-05T15:10:34.514Z (5 months ago)
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- Stars: 46
- Watchers: 6
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 1
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# Technical Blogs
*Technical blogs around data collaboration, data management, and building collaborative applications.*
## [Writing a Vector Database in a Week in Rust](https://github.com/terminusdb/technical-blogs/blob/main/blogs/writing-a-vector-database-in-rust.md)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Thursday, Jun 1, 2023
*Description:*
Vector databases are all the rage at the moment and it's not just hype. The advance of AI, which is making use of vector embeddings, has significantly increased the buzz. This article talks about how we implemented a vector database in Rust in a week to give us semantic indexing and entity resolution using OpenAI to define our embeddings.
## [Schema Migration](https://github.com/terminusdb/technical-blogs/blob/main/blogs/schema_migration.md)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Monday, Apr 24, 2023
*Description:*
An article talking about change management for data and how we deal with managing changes to the data model.
## [The Content Revolution](https://terminusdb.com/blog/content-revolution/)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Wednesday, Feb 15, 2023
*Description:*
A look at TerminusCMS from a technical perspective and how we're trying to address what's missing in today's document management solutions.
## [TerminusDB Internals - Part 3: Sorting Every Sort of Thing](https://terminusdb.com/blog/terminusdb-internals-3/)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Tuesday, Nov 22, 2022
*Description:*
Part 3 and final part of TerminusDB internals. This one looks at how we deal with lexical sorting with things that aren't designed to be sorted logically.
## [TerminusDB Internals - Part 2: Mutating the Immutable](https://terminusdb.com/blog/terminusdb-internals-2/)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Monday, Nov 14, 2022
*Description:*
Part 2 of TerminusDB internals looks at how we deal with mutating immutable data by using deltas and rollups.
## [The Solution to The Object Relational Impedance Mismatch](https://terminusdb.com/blog/object-relational-impedance-mismatch/)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Wednesday, Nov 9, 2022
*Description:*
Have you run into Object Relational Impedance Mismatch? Gavin wrote this blog talking about his experiences overcoming it.
## [TerminusDB Internals - Part 1: Graph Representation](https://terminusdb.com/blog/terminusdb-internals/)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Monday, Nov 7, 2022
*Description:*
Part 1 of a 3-part series looking into the guts of TerminusDB. The first part looks at graph representation and our efforts to make things smaller, faster, and stronger.
## [Implementing GraphQL in 14 Days](https://terminusdb.com/blog/implement-graphql-in-fourteen-days/)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Friday, Oct 28, 2022
*Description:*
This article describes how Gavin and Matthijs worked for 14 days to implement GraphQL into TerminusDB using the Juniper library.
## [GraphQL RDF Bridge using Star Wars Dataset in TerminusDB](https://terminusdb.com/blog/graphql-rdf-bridge-using-star-wars-dataset/)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Friday, Oct 14, 2022
*Description:*
A tutorial blog using a Star Wars RDF dataset, importing it into TerminusDB and querying the data using GraphQL.
## [The Semantic Web Is Dead! Long Live the Semantic Web](https://terminusdb.com/blog/the-semantic-web-is-dead/)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Friday, Aug 12, 2022
*Description:*
Following some Twitter 'discussions', this blog looks at the semantic web and why it failed. It also looks at how it could be resurrected.
## [The issue of blank nodes in RDF](https://github.com/terminusdb/technical-blogs/blob/main/blogs/blank_nodes_in_rdf.md)
*Author:* Somethingelseentirely - *Discord community member*
*Date:* Friday, Jun 24, 2022
*Description:*
This article by TerminusDB community member Somethingelseentirely focuses on the issue of blank nodes in RDF. Blank nodes have long been an underrecognized problem in RDF with practitioners apparently comfortable with solving graph isomorphism on the fly over and over again. TerminusDB takes the approach of immediately skolemizing blank nodes to ensure that it never becomes an issue.
## [TerminusDB 10.1.0 - The Mule](https://github.com/terminusdb/technical-blogs/blob/main/blogs/terminusdb-10.1.0-the-mule.md)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Tuesday, Jun 14, 2022
*Description:*
We have recently released TerminusDB v10.1 which we have labeled The Mule. We have added a number of technical features, and performance enhancements, but most of these are all pieces on the way to realising our broader vision.
## [Mergeable records: A data modeling approach](https://github.com/terminusdb/technical-blogs/blob/main/blogs/mergeable_records.md)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Friday, Mar 4, 2022
*Description:*
What happens when you have duplicate records you want to merge? What about when you're sourcing data from the Internet and have conflicting data about something? This article looks at merge problems when you have the data, and explores how you can approach merging records from a data modeling approach.
## [What's in a name: URI Generation and unique names for objects](https://github.com/terminusdb/technical-blogs/blob/main/blogs/whats_in_a_name.md)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Monday, Feb 28, 2022
*Description:*
This article looks at various identifier generation strategies, including: manual, lexical, hash, random, and value hash, and details our experiences and difficulties in our early days of working with RDF and how we have aimed to make identifier generation strategies easier and simpler within TerminusDB.
## [What if MongoDB and Neo4j had a baby](./blogs/mongo_neo4j_terminusx.md)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Sunday, Feb 13, 2022
*Description:*
Exploring the NoSQL revolution and our thoughts about the benefits storing data as JSON documents combined with the insights that graph databases provide.
## [What's the Difference: JSON diff and patch](./blogs/json_diff_and_patch.md)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Thursday, Feb 10, 2022
*Description:*
A look at the importance of JSON diff and patch and how it is essential for Web3 and building collaborative applications.
## [Many Worlds: a philosophy of data collaboration](./blogs/many_worlds.md)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Friday, Oct 29, 2021
*Description:*
An analytic philosophical take on what data collaboration is and how we should think about it.
## [Why TerminusX](./blogs/why_terminusx.md)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Tuesday, Sept 28, 2021
*Description:*
An analytic philosophical take on what data collaboration is and how we should think about it.
## [Syntactic Versioning: What if Git worked with Programming Languages?](./blogs/syntactic_versioning.md)
*Author:* Gavin Mendel-Gleason
*Date:* Sunday, Sept 26, 2021
*Description:*
How far could we go with versioning? This article looks at how Git changed how teams collaborate, but explores taking versioning from versioning of lines of text, to syntactic versioning.