[Puppet-dev] Re: Graph databases and languages

2011-05-27 Thread Tim Coote
Gremlin looks quite similar to the language that we built at Tideway, which came from the CORBA Relationship Service. What Gremlin appears to lack is any sort of typing mechanism and, as far as I can see, general purpose graph traversal (find all nodes that I can get to from node (x)). Dunno how i

[Puppet-dev] Re: Graph databases and languages

2011-05-27 Thread Tim Coote
fwiw, we built a persistent graph model using the CORBA Relationship Service into the Tideway product to track just this type of dependency. I think that it was quite easy to build the layer and the service definitions are nicely robust and very flexible. I'm not familiar with those products, but t

[Puppet-dev] Re: Graph databases and languages

2011-05-24 Thread Henrik Lindberg
Hi, We have not used neo4j nor gremlin, but have used google "bigtable" via GoogleApp Engine. Our experience is that things break down at large scale and having many small individually stored pieces. We hit limits pretty quickly (i.e. thousands of things). Our approach is to use models that a