Could an ontology suitably replace an RDBMS for a web app?

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Published on 2010-03-31T20:02:22Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 20:03 UTC
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I'm considering storing the content of a web app in an RDF or OWL ontology instead of an RDBMS.

However, when I research ontologies they seem to always exist in the context of publicly accessible data stores serving as the backbone of the semantic web. I've never heard of them being used as the content engine behind a web app.

Is it reasonable to use an ontology instead of an RDBMS for such an application?

(Again, this is just for content. User data, commerce and stuff like that will stay in a database as I see no need to reinvent the wheel there.)

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