Re: [Neo] Persisting store metadata

2010-01-05 Thread rick . bullotta
n a "mini db" that used Neo constructs but did not have any other dependencies) would work fine. Original Message ---- Subject: Re: [Neo] Persisting store metadata From: Peter Neubauer Date: Tue, January 05, 2010 5:48 am To: Neo user discussio

Re: [Neo] Persisting store metadata

2010-01-05 Thread Peter Neubauer
Hi there, my only concern with storing metadata in the db itself is the issue of having no way to discover the version of Neo4j needed to open the db, and the inability to get that metainf out with anything but Neo4j itself. I am thinking of things like maven processing to programmatically add inf

Re: [Neo] Persisting store metadata

2010-01-05 Thread Mattias Persson
2010/1/5 Tobias Ivarsson : > That's an interesting idea. However something in my gut tells me that it's > not good/better: > * It's still open for people to mock about with, however now it's in the > node space using up a relationship type that is now unusable by the > application (at least as a re

Re: [Neo] Persisting store metadata

2010-01-05 Thread Tobias Ivarsson
That's an interesting idea. However something in my gut tells me that it's not good/better: * It's still open for people to mock about with, however now it's in the node space using up a relationship type that is now unusable by the application (at least as a relationship from the reference node).

Re: [Neo] Persisting store metadata

2010-01-05 Thread Mattias Persson
Great initiative. Instead of storing such information in a plain-text file it could be stored in the neo4j store itself (as a sub-reference node or something). I don't know if that'd be good/better though. 2010/1/4 Tobias Ivarsson : > Hi, > > Neo4j today is made up of a core service that persist

Re: [Neo] Persisting store metadata

2010-01-04 Thread Raul Raja Martinez
We personally use a facade/factory that allows us to interface to neo4j and the Lucene indexes as if it was a single system. This service is a singleton initialized with Spring with an init and destroy method that properly starts/shutdown the store and index. If it was up to me the index utils woul

[Neo] Persisting store metadata

2010-01-04 Thread Tobias Ivarsson
Hi, Neo4j today is made up of a core service that persists nodes, relationships and properties. In addition to that there are a number of additional services, where index-util is probably the most used and most important at the moment. index-util is also a good example of the problem I would like