On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Peter Schlumpf wrote: >> From: Alex Osborne <[log in to unmask]> >> If I'm understanding you correctly, what you have in mind is a >> triplestore. A database for storing purely relationship triples and > Close. What I have in mind looks more like just pure objects and >pointers. Think in purely abstract terms at this level. It's possible >to have one to many relationships from one object to many other >objects. It would be possible to group sets of objects together by >using a single "proxy" object in this database that refers to the >others. But I'm starting to digress. All of which are possible in a TripleStore :) Or an Object-Relational database, but a triple store would likely find more support in the community. I would encourage looking at rdf triplestores seriously, if the graph approach is the direction that you want to go in. Rob