Maybe I can try to clarify my ideas a bit. When a cluster of nodes is persistent (the same nodes relate to each other to, say, uniquely identify an individual person) I would like to be able to link the cluster without losing the identity of the component nodes. Since all my individual nodes are potentially reusable I can still connect to them if a design requires it, but creating a relationship to a cluster should be similar to doing a join without knowing what other information is attached.
Clear as mud? On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 12:31:49 PM UTC-7, John O'Gorman wrote: > > I am working with a Neo4J model that uses a finite set of Labels based on > the six interrogatives (Who, What, When, Where, Why and How) and on a > similarly constrained set of relationships: Is_A, Is_Has, Is_Part_Has, > Is_Precedent_Has, Is_Equivalent_Has and Is_Property_Has. Since the nature > of a Relationship in this model uses nodes instead of arbitrary edges (i.e. > "Lives_In" for the example below, I end up with statements (in pseudo > Cypher) like the following: > > :Person {'Fred Flinstone'} - [:Is_Has] -> :Status {'Resident'} <- > [:Is_Has} - :Place {'Bedrock'} > > My question is: I was wondering if I can assign a unique identifier (or a > URI) to the statement above in order to reference it (establish a new > relationship to it) later. > > I am thinking it would be a better alternative than hyper-edges. > > Thoughts? Other than (WTH is he thinking?) :D > > Thanks. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Neo4j" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neo4j+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.