Hi,
A link is just a physical pointer, eg.
Record 1: {@rid: #12:0, name:"John" }
Record 2: {@rid: #12:1, name:"Frank", friendOf:#12:0 }
the friendOf attribute here is a link. Given Record 2, you can easily find
Record 1 following the link, but if you only know Record 1 you have no
information about connected nodes.
An edge is a bit more complex structure, it's actually a document:
Vertex 1: {@rid: #12:0, name:"John", out_friendOf:#13:0 }
Edge: {@rid: #13:0, out:#12:0, in:#12:1, since: 1/3/2015 }
Vertex 2: {@rid: #12:1, name:"Frank", in_friendOf:#13:0 }
As you can see, the underlying structure relies on links (out/in_friendOf
on the vertices and out/in on the edge), but
- the edge is a document, so it can have properties ("since" in this case)
- you have links on both sides, so you can efficiently traverse the edge in
both directions
Thanks
Luigi
2017-03-15 13:12 GMT+01:00 thulaseeswara reddy gajjala <
tech.esw...@gmail.com>:
> hi
> when we use edges and when we used links in real time scenarios. Is there
> any difference from both
> thanks
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