🆚 RDF vs. XML

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
RDF
XML

Type

Standard
Standard

About

Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a W3C standard model to describe and exchange graph data on the web.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

w3.org/RDF/ #12,884
w3.org/XML/ #12,884

Categories

Standards › Rank #33
Standards › Rank #28

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

XML is 2.3 times more popular than RDF.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

XML is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Germany, while RDF is more popular in Russia, Canada, and Ukraine.
Japan
United States
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
Czech Republic
Italy
France
Spain
Switzerland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

XML is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and online shopping, while RDF is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, non-profit, advocacy and NGO, and general news sites.
Business
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
Health
Public Information

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
imagefap.com
#471
s*xalarab.com
#881
mlookalp**no.com
#932
#1,601
#1,767
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Name
Rank
#940
#1,010
#1,288
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