Hi Berni, Thanks for the idea. I've actually never heard of graph databases. Googling around I'm wondering why I have not heard of them before, they seem to be everywhere, and I understand the use cases.
This would definitely be interesting, it might be a little too much for me at this point. But I will continue to look into this in the next couple weeks. Best Regards, Alex On Monday, July 28, 2014 3:14:07 PM UTC+2, Bernie wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > I'm surprised nobody responded so far, so let me enter my personal > favourite topic. > > One of the biggest problems I am currently facing with Erlang in general > is its practically none existing support for graph databases. There is a > Neo4j driver and while it may be a fine DB, it's also horribly expensive > for commercial use. > Free, and for many use cases better choices exist, but are limited to > using the REST interface which is slower and often doesn't offer the full > capabilities of the respective native interface. > > So my hope would be for a native driver for one of the better FOSS graph > DBs that could be wrapped into a boss_db module, but also be used > stand-alone from generic Erlang programs. A Tinkerpop/Gremlin > implementation would be cool too. > > I realize there is probably limited interest in graphs in the CB > community. But since anything you can attach a big data label to seems to > have potential these days, you might be able to get something out of it for > yourself as well. > And if you could throw in some data visualization library it would be even > more amazing ;) > > Anyway, hoping you like my ideas and best regards, > Bernie > > > On Thursday, July 24, 2014 7:35:58 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I am currently finishing my computer science studies and am looking for >> ideas for a semester or bachelor project. >> >> I must first confess that I do not have any Erlang or Elixir experience. >> I have alot of work experience with Python ( especially with Django ) , >> Objective C, and C++. I understand that Erlang is a completely different >> thing. I am very curious about ChicagoBoss though and would very much like >> to contribute. I am a fast learner and I do have alot of work experience >> with web frameworks. >> >> The seminar project should be no less that 120 hours of work, with a >> focus on implementation. The bachelor project, no less that 360 hours with >> an additional focus on theory. I will be documenting my work as I go, >> results would be open to the public. Any input or guidance in the form of >> mentoring would be appreciated but is not a requirement. >> >> I would love to be able to invest this effort into something that would >> be usefull to the ChicagoBoss community. I've watched some of the Evan >> Millar youtube talks and find them really inspiring. Maybe there is a >> killer-module from the Django or RoR world that would be great to have as a >> ChicagoBoss add-on? Any ideas would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Alex Gustafson >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChicagoBoss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chicagoboss. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chicagoboss/11d3a620-10cb-468d-9e30-70b78159fbe6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
