E Changes in Terminology and Subprograms
This appendix introduces changes to a few RDF terminologies and reference procedure names (in the SEM_APIS package) that apply from Oracle Database Release 23ai onwards.
The following table describes the RDF terms that have changed in this book.
Table E-1 Changes in Terminology
| New Term | Old Term |
|---|---|
| RDF graph | Semantic model |
| RDF network | Semantic network |
| Inferred graph | Entailment |
| RDF graph collection | Virtual model |
| Result table | Subject-Property-Matrix (SPM) table |
| Star-Pattern table | Single-Valued Property (SVP) table |
| Triple-Pattern table | Multi-Valued Property (MVP) table |
| Chain-Pattern table | Property Chain (PCN) table |
In alignment with the new terms described in Table E-1, the names of a few existing reference procedures in the SEM_APIS package have changed as described in the following table. Oracle Graph recommends that you use the new subprograms starting from Oracle Database Release 23ai.
Table E-2 Changes to the Subprogram Names in the SEM_APIS Package
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