Most large social networks I know do not store their social graphs in
relational databases, so thinking relationally doesn't scale here, period,
especially if you want to do graph traversals.
If you are just looking for a way to check for network inclusion - I know of
a large social network, that,
Take a read through this
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/browse_thread/thread/4298b7f54f1b58db/ddfabdb64110effc?q=
On May 24, 1:43 am, MahatmaManic wrote:
> Big monster list! My app allows users to send requests to their
> "network" which I am arbitrarily defining as 1st and
Big monster list! My app allows users to send requests to their
"network" which I am arbitrarily defining as 1st and 2nd degree
relationships. I assume I don't want to store it as a big monster list
for each user, but I do need to build it as efficiently as possible on
the fly. Thanks for the resou
