🆚 RDF vs. XML
- 📈 XML is noticeably more popular than RDF.
- 🌎 XML is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Germany.
- 🌍 RDF is more popular in Russia, France, and Canada.
Type
About
Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a W3C standard model for describing and exchanging graph-based data on the web.
It enables linking and integration of data across different vocabularies, represents information as subject-predicate-object triples forming directed graphs, and supports serialization formats such as RDF/XML for 
XML-based data exchange as well as Turtle and 
JSON-LD.
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing structured data in a platform-independent way.
It uses a hierarchical tree structure with custom-defined tags, supports schemas such as DTD and XML Schema for validation, enables namespaces to avoid naming conflicts, and is widely used in formats and protocols such as 
RSS, SOAP, and configuration files.
Headquarters
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Ukraine in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Russia in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Pakistan in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Indonesia in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in South Africa in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Switzerland in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
XFN
OpenSearch
HTML
JSON
YAML🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,511,995 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.