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Am 02.04.2014 um 06:47 schrieb Rio Eduardo <rioeduard...@gmail.com>:

> Oh yeah Michael I'm new in traversal api, after I read the doc about 
> traversal api, should I use it with java? I mean is there others way to use 
> traversal api, ex: I can run the syntax traversal api in neo4j shell or http? 
> if there is, please provide me a reference how to use traversal api not 
> through java.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 8:31:25 PM UTC+7, Michael Hunger wrote:
>> 
>> For the traversal framework check out: 
>> http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/milestone/tutorial-traversal.html
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Rio Eduardo <rioedu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Michael,
>>> 
>>> you said "In general if you really want to do these deep traversals you 
>>> might be better off (in terms of performance) using the traversal-API with 
>>> an appropriate uniqueness constraint, like node-path". Please give me any 
>>> references so I can learn it. or Does it mean you suggest me to use Gremlin?
>>> 
>>> Thank you.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Monday, March 31, 2014 8:09:32 PM UTC+7, Michael Hunger wrote:
>>>> Just use a dataset that you can reason about and check if they work 
>>>> correctly.
>>>> 
>>>> Hard for me to be the consistency checker on your queries :)
>>>> 
>>>> In general if you really want to do these deep traversals you might be 
>>>> better off (in terms of performance) using the traversal-API with an 
>>>> appropriate uniqueness constraint, like node-path.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Rio Eduardo <rioedu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hello again Michael.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I just want to make sure that my query is correct to find friends of 
>>>>> friends at depth of four and five. Please help me by checking my query.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Query at depth of four:
>>>>> MATCH (U:User)-[F:Friend]->(FU:User)-[FF:Friend]->(FFU:User)
>>>>> WHERE U.user_id=1
>>>>> WITH DISTINCT U, FU, FFU
>>>>> WHERE FFU<>U 
>>>>> WITH DISTINCT U, FU, FFU
>>>>> MATCH (FFU:User)-[FFF:Friend]->(FFFU:User)
>>>>> WHERE FFFU<>FU
>>>>> WITH DISTINCT U, FFU, FFFU
>>>>> MATCH (FFFU:User)-[FFFF:Friend]->(FFFFU:User)
>>>>> WHERE FFFFU<>FFU AND FFFFU<>U AND NOT (U)-[:Friend]->(FFFFU)
>>>>> RETURN DISTINCT FFFFU.username;
>>>>> 
>>>>> Query at depth of five:
>>>>> MATCH (U:User)-[F:Friend]->(FU:User)-[FF:Friend]->(FFU:User)
>>>>> WHERE U.user_id=1
>>>>> WITH DISTINCT U, FU, FFU
>>>>> WHERE FFU<>U 
>>>>> WITH DISTINCT U, FU, FFU
>>>>> MATCH (FFU:User)-[FFF:Friend]->(FFFU:User)
>>>>> WHERE FFFU<>FU
>>>>> WITH DISTINCT U, FFU, FFFU
>>>>> MATCH (FFFU:User)-[FFFF:Friend]->(FFFFU:User)
>>>>> WHERE FFFFU<>FFU
>>>>> WITH DISTINCT U, FFFU, FFFFU
>>>>> MATCH (FFFFU:User)-[FFFFF:Friend]->(FFFFFU:User)
>>>>> WHERE FFFFFU<>FFFU AND FFFFFU<>U AND NOT (U)-[:Friend]->(FFFFFU)
>>>>> RETURN DISTINCT FFFFFU.username;
>>>>> 
>>>>> I need your help so much.
>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sunday, March 30, 2014 7:42:27 PM UTC+7, Michael Hunger wrote:
>>>>>> Split it up in one more intermediate step, the intermediate steps are 
>>>>>> there to get the cardinality down, so it doesn't have to match billions 
>>>>>> of paths, only millions or 100k
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> MATCH 
>>>>>> (U:User)-[F:Friend]->(FU:User)-[FF:Friend]->(FFU:User)-[FFF:Friend]->(FFFU:User)
>>>>>> WHERE U.user_id=1
>>>>>> WITH DISTINCT U, FU, FFU
>>>>>> WHERE FFU<>U 
>>>>>> WITH DISTINCT U, FFU
>>>>>> MATCH (FFU:User)-[FFF:Friend]->(FFFU:User)
>>>>>> WHERE NOT (U)-[:Friend]->(FFFU)
>>>>>> RETURN distinct FFFU.username;
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Rio Eduardo <rioedu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Please help me again Michael.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> You ever said:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I would also change:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> MATCH (U:User)-[F:Friend]->(FU:User)-[FF:Friend]->(FFU:User)
>>>>>>> WHERE U.user_id=1 AND FFU.user_id<>U.user_id AND NOT 
>>>>>>> (U)-[:Friend]->(FFU)
>>>>>>> RETURN FFU.username
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> MATCH (U:User)-[F:Friend]->(FU:User)-[FF:Friend]->(FFU:User)
>>>>>>> WHERE U.user_id=1 
>>>>>>> WITH distinct U, FFU
>>>>>>> WHERE FFU<>U AND NOT (U)-[:Friend]->(FFU)
>>>>>>> RETURN FFU.username
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Query above is to find friends of friends at depth of two. And I would 
>>>>>>> like to find friends of friends  at depth of three, when I use model of 
>>>>>>> your query, it returns result longer than mine and the result is much 
>>>>>>> more than mine. Ok so here is model of your query at depth of three:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> MATCH 
>>>>>>> (U:User)-[F:Friend]->(FU:User)-[FF:Friend]->(FFU:User)-[FFF:Friend]->(FFFU:User)
>>>>>>> WHERE U.user_id=1
>>>>>>> WITH DISTINCT U, FU, FFU, FFFU
>>>>>>> WHERE FFU<>U AND FFFU<>FU AND NOT (U)-[:Friend]->(FFFU)
>>>>>>> RETURN FFFU.username;
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 118858 rows
>>>>>>> 20090 ms
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Mine:
>>>>>>> MATCH 
>>>>>>> (U:User)-[F:Friend]->(FU:User)-[FF:Friend]->(FFU:User)-[FFF:Friend]->(FFFU:User)
>>>>>>> WHERE U.user_id=1 AND FFU<>U AND FFFU<>FU AND NOT (U)-[:Friend]->(FFFU)
>>>>>>> RETURN DISTINCT FFFU.username;
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 950 rows
>>>>>>> 18133 ms
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Please help me, Why is model of your query longer than mine and return 
>>>>>>> much more results than mine?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Friday, March 28, 2014 8:30:20 PM UTC+7, Michael Hunger wrote:
>>>>>>>> Rio,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> was this your first run of both statements? If so, please run them for 
>>>>>>>> a second time.
>>>>>>>> And did you create an index or constraint for :User(user_id) ?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> MATCH (U:User) RETURN COUNT(U);
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I would also change:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> MATCH (U:User)-[F:Friend]->(FU:User)-[FF:Friend]->(FFU:User)
>>>>>>>> WHERE U.user_id=1 AND FFU.user_id<>U.user_id AND NOT 
>>>>>>>> (U)-[:Friend]->(FFU)
>>>>>>>> RETURN FFU.username
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> MATCH (U:User)-[F:Friend]->(FU:User)-[FF:Friend]->(FFU:User)
>>>>>>>> WHERE U.user_id=1 
>>>>>>>> WITH distinct U, FFU
>>>>>>>> WHERE FFU<>U AND NOT (U)-[:Friend]->(FFU)
>>>>>>>> RETURN FFU.username
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I quickly created a dataset on my machine:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> cypher 2.0 foreach (i in range(1,1000) | create (:User {id:i}));
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> create constraint on (u:User) assert u.id is unique;  
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> match (u1:User),(u2:User) with u1,u2 where rand() < 0.1 create 
>>>>>>>> (u1)-[:Friend]->(u2);
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Relationships created: 99974
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 778 ms
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> match (u:User) return count(*);
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> +----------+
>>>>>>>> | count(*) |
>>>>>>>> +----------+
>>>>>>>> | 1000     |
>>>>>>>> +----------+
>>>>>>>> 1 row
>>>>>>>> 4 ms
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> MATCH (U:User)-[F:Friend]->(FU:User)-[FF:Friend]->(FFU:User)
>>>>>>>> WHERE U.id=1 
>>>>>>>> WITH distinct U, FFU
>>>>>>>> WHERE FFU<>U AND NOT (U)-[:Friend]->(FFU)
>>>>>>>> RETURN FFU.id;
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>> 910 rows
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 101 ms
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> but even your query takes only
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> MATCH (U:User)-[F:Friend]->(FU:User)-[FF:Friend]->(FFU:User)
>>>>>>>> WHERE U.id=1 AND FFU.id<>U.id AND NOT (U)-[:Friend]->(FFU)
>>>>>>>> RETURN FFU.id;
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 8188 rows
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 578 ms
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Lundin <lundin....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > ms, it is milliseconds.
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > What is the corresponding result for a SQL db ?
>>>>>>>> > MATCH (n:User)-[:Friend*3]-(FoFoF) return FoFoF;
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > Albeit a valid search is it something useful ? I would think finding 
>>>>>>>> > a specific persons FoFoF in either end, as a starting point or end 
>>>>>>>> > point, would be a very realistic scenario. Adding an Index on 
>>>>>>>> > User:name and query for a User with name:Rio try to find his FoFoF.
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > Yes, neo4j has been kind and exposed various function, like 
>>>>>>>> > shortestpath in cypher
>>>>>>>> > http://docs.neo4j.org/refcard/2.0/
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > Also look at some gist examples
>>>>>>>> > https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/graphgist/wiki
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > Den fredagen den 28:e mars 2014 kl. 05:00:22 UTC+1 skrev Rio Eduardo:
>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>> >> Thank you so much for the reply Lundin. I really apreciate it. 
>>>>>>>> >> Okay, yesterday I just tested my experiment again. And the result 
>>>>>>>> >> was not what I imagined and expected before. Okay, before I tested 
>>>>>>>> >> 1M users, I reduced the number of users into 1000 users and tested 
>>>>>>>> >> it not in my social network but directly in database only(Neo4j 
>>>>>>>> >> Shell) to find out that it was not caused by the performance of pc. 
>>>>>>>> >> But the result of returning 1000 users was 200ms and 1 row and the 
>>>>>>>> >> result of returning friends at depth of two was 85000ms and 2500 
>>>>>>>> >> rows and are 200ms and 85000ms fast to you? and what does ms stand 
>>>>>>>> >> for? is it milliseconds or microseconds?
>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>> >> the query I use for returning 1000 users is
>>>>>>>> >> MATCH (U:User) RETURN COUNT(U);
>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>> >> and the query I use for returning friends at depth of two is
>>>>>>>> >> MATCH (U:User)-[F:Friend]->(FU:User)-[FF:Friend]->(FFU:User)
>>>>>>>> >> WHERE U.user_id=1 AND FFU.user_id<>U.user_id AND NOT 
>>>>>>>> >> (U)-[:Friend]->(FFU)
>>>>>>>> >> RETURN FFU.username
>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>> >> Please note that I tested with default configuration of Neo4j and 
>>>>>>>> >> created users with 1000 random nodes and created friends 
>>>>>>>> >> relationships with 50000 random relationships(1 user has 50 
>>>>>>>> >> friends). Each relationship has a label Friend and no properties on 
>>>>>>>> >> it. Each node has a label User, 4 properties: user_id, username, 
>>>>>>>> >> password and profile_picture. Each property has a value of 1-60 
>>>>>>>> >> characters. average of characters of user_id=1-1000 characters, all 
>>>>>>>> >> usernames have 10 characters randomly, all passwords have 60 
>>>>>>>> >> characters because I MD5 it, and profile_picture has 1-60 
>>>>>>>> >> characters.
>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>> >> And about your statement "Otherwise if you really need to present 
>>>>>>>> >> that many "things" just paging the result with SKIP,LIMIT. I has 
>>>>>>>> >> never made sense to present 1M of anything at a time for a user.", 
>>>>>>>> >> I already did according to your statement above but it is still the 
>>>>>>>> >> same, Neo4j returns result slower.
>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>> >> And I'm wondering if Neo4j already applied one of graph 
>>>>>>>> >> algorithms(shortest path, djikstra, A*, etc) in its system or not.
>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>> >> Thank you.
>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>> >> On Friday, March 28, 2014 3:43:49 AM UTC+7, Lundin wrote:
>>>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>>>> >>> Rio, any version will do. They can all handle million nodes on 
>>>>>>>> >>> common hardware, no magic at all. When hundred of millions of 
>>>>>>>> >>> billions then we might need to look into specfication more in 
>>>>>>>> >>> detail. But in that case with that kind of data there are other 
>>>>>>>> >>> bottlencks for a social network or any web appp that needs to be 
>>>>>>>> >>> taken care of as well.
>>>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>>>> >>> you said:
>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>>  Given any two persons chosen at random, is there a path that 
>>>>>>>> >>>> connects them that is at most five relationships long? For a 
>>>>>>>> >>>> social network containing 1,000,000 people, each with 
>>>>>>>> >>>> approximately 50 friends, the results strongly suggest that graph 
>>>>>>>> >>>> databases are the best choice for connected data. And graph 
>>>>>>>> >>>> database can still work 150 times faster than relational database 
>>>>>>>> >>>> at third degree and 1000 times faster at fourth degre
>>>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>>>> >>> I fail to see how this is connected to your attempt to list 1M 
>>>>>>>> >>> users in one go at the first page. You would want to seek if there 
>>>>>>>> >>> is a relationship and return that path between users. You need two 
>>>>>>>> >>> start nodes and seek a path by traveser the relationsip rather 
>>>>>>>> >>> than scan tables and that would be the comparison.
>>>>>>>> >>> Otherwise if you really need to present that many "things" just 
>>>>>>>> >>> paging the result with SKIP,LIMIT. I has never made sense to 
>>>>>>>> >>> present 1M of anything at a time for a user. Again, that wouldn't 
>>>>>>>> >>> really serve your experiment much good to prove graph theory.
>>>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>>>> >>> What is the result of MATCH(U:User) RETURN count(U); ?
>>>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>>>> >>> Also when you do your test make sure to add the warm/cold cache 
>>>>>>>> >>> effect (better/worse performance)
>>>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>>>> >>> Den torsdagen den 27:e mars 2014 kl. 17:57:10 UTC+1 skrev Rio 
>>>>>>>> >>> Eduardo:
>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>> I just knew about memory allocation and just read Server 
>>>>>>>> >>>> Performance Tuning of Neo4j. neo4j.properties:
>>>>>>>> >>>> # Default values for the low-level graph engine
>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>> #neostore.nodestore.db.mapped_memory=25M
>>>>>>>> >>>> #neostore.relationshipstore.db.mapped_memory=50M
>>>>>>>> >>>> #neostore.propertystore.db.mapped_memory=90M
>>>>>>>> >>>> #neostore.propertystore.db.strings.mapped_memory=130M
>>>>>>>> >>>> #neostore.propertystore.db.arrays.mapped_memory=130M
>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>> Should I change this to get high performance? If yes, please 
>>>>>>>> >>>> suggest me.
>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>> And I just knew about Neo4j Licenses, they are Community, 
>>>>>>>> >>>> Personal, Startups, Business and Enterprise. And at Neo4j website 
>>>>>>>> >>>> all features are explained. So which Neo4j should I use for my 
>>>>>>>> >>>> case that has millions nodes and relationships?
>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>> Please answer. I need your help so much.
>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>> On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 12:03:58 AM UTC+7, Rio Eduardo wrote:
>>>>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>>> I'm testing my thesis which is about transforming from 
>>>>>>>> >>>>> relational database to graph database. After transforming from 
>>>>>>>> >>>>> relational database to graph database, I will test their own 
>>>>>>>> >>>>> performance according to query response time and throughput. In 
>>>>>>>> >>>>> relational database, I use MySQL while in graph database I use 
>>>>>>>> >>>>> Neo4j for testing. I will have 3 Million more nodes and 6 
>>>>>>>> >>>>> Million more relationships. But when I just added 60000 nodes, 
>>>>>>>> >>>>> my Neo4j is already dead. When I tried to return all 60000 
>>>>>>>> >>>>> nodes, it returned unknown. I did the same to MySQL, I added 
>>>>>>>> >>>>> 60000 records but it could return all 60000 records. It's weird 
>>>>>>>> >>>>> because it's against the papers I read that told me graph 
>>>>>>>> >>>>> database is faster than relational database So Why is Neo4j 
>>>>>>>> >>>>> slower(totally dead) in lower specification of pc/notebook while 
>>>>>>>> >>>>> MySQL is not? And What specification of pc/notebook do I should 
>>>>>>>> >>>>> use to give the best performance during testing with millions of 
>>>>>>>> >>>>> nodes and relationships?
>>>>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>>> Thank you.
>>>>>>>> >
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