Re: [Neo4j] Cypher->Pickle?

2011-11-04 Thread Peter Hunsberger
hes). Not sure it would map directly to what you want, but I suspect you could build a syntax that was more xQuery like than you will ever be able to build a syntax that is truly SQL like? Peter Hunsberger On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Andres Taylor < andres.tay...@neotechnology.com> wrote

Re: [Neo4j] Cypher->Pickle?

2011-11-04 Thread Peter Hunsberger
One question, and I bet I won't be the only one asking it... If SQL is the target to mimic, why not "WHERE" instead of "PATTERN" ? Otherwise, wouldn't xQuery be perhaps an even more logical target? Peter Hunsberger On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 12:58 PM

Re: [Neo4j] Article: "The Coming SQL Collapse"

2011-10-14 Thread Peter Hunsberger
tions of the mappings and sometimes (usually in my experience) that's a bigger problem then mixing a physical model with a logical model, at least if you contain that to some small portion of your application. Peter Hunsberger On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Tobias Ivarsson < tobias.ivars...@n

Re: [Neo4j] Modelling with neo4j

2011-09-24 Thread Peter Hunsberger
tegories overlap then figure out what makes them overlap and split that off as a category (type or metatype) of it's own. In other words, it's time to refactor, which takes us full circle back to point 1 and it's now time to go get some sleep. Hope this helps. Peter Hunsberger

Re: [Neo4j] How there are lesser writes

2011-07-11 Thread Peter Hunsberger
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Jim Webber wrote: > Hello Aliabbas, > > It's domain specific, but in general you write less in a graph db because the > power is in relationships. > > Imagine something akin to Digg where lots of users follow the postings of > other users. Each time a writer posts

Re: [Neo4j] New to graph databases

2011-06-27 Thread Peter Hunsberger
ssues that are not necessarily directly related to the logical model; read / write ratios, total data volumes, concurrent access etc., but the logical model may be the same in both cases. Peter Hunsberger ___ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org h

Re: [Neo4j] Indexing Strings vs Indexing Integers

2011-06-14 Thread Peter Hunsberger
Better for what? Speed & efficency, use integers. However, there are some use cases where an integer is not big enough... On Jun 14, 2011 7:47 AM, "Aman" wrote: Which one is better? and how? Indexing Strings or Indexing Integers? Please explain in a way that a newbie to indexing (like me) might

Re: [Neo4j] Examples of multiple indices in use?

2011-05-05 Thread Peter Hunsberger
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Mattias Persson wrote: > 2011/5/5 Aseem Kishore > > > Interesting. That's assuming a person and an organization can share the > > same > > name. Maybe an edge case in this example, but I can understand. Thanks. > > > > Hmm, no not share the same name, but have the