[Developers] Too Many Writes Error

[Michael Jones]

Hi,

I seem to have reached some sort of quota on writes to Freebase and now get
the error :

"result status not okay: /api/status/error; error: Too many writes"

each time I try a write.  Will this be reset eventually?  If so, when.  What
is the limit?

I am curious about the long term intent of the Freebase team for the
database.  Is it intended to be a Wikipedia alternate, with more formalized
and flexible relationships between its instances, or is the value going to
lie in external applications that use the data in Freebase?  If the latter
is part of the plan at all, some thought should be given to allowing private
instances and types.

External applications will often have need of grafting their own types onto
Freebase instances in order to flag them or add meta data that would not be
of interest to the general public browsing Freebase.  You can force
developers of Freebase applications to use private databases for this
information, which seems to be the intent now, but in my opinion that is a
mistake.  If you want to encourage widespread development of Freebase
powered apps, then make them as easy to develop as possible.  Allowing
private types and instances in Freebase will mean a developer can build a
Freebase powered app and only have to worry about an MQL data access model
and only one database for connectivity, greatly simplifying the development
effort.  Further, the object oriented nature of JSON/MQL is much more
intuitive than RDB/SQL and will make such development accessible to a much
wider audience of fledgling developers.
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Michael Jones, Gamer at Large
szaijan at ternea.com
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