[Neo4j] Modeling inheritance in Neo4J

Hi, I'm looking for best practices in modeling inheritance in Neo4J. Suppose I have a Person class. In the DB I naturally have a node for each person. I'm following the design guide, and created a PEOPLE subreference node, connected to all "Person" nodes (A and B in the diagram below)

Re: [Neo4j] Modeling inheritance in Neo4J

Another factor to consider is multiple inheritance, where you are grouping the people into overlapping groups. For example, you can have the users/non.users split, but also perhaps a man/woman split, and this results in four types. If you are concerned about having to restructure the graph when add

Re: [Neo4j] Modeling inheritance in Neo4J

Craig, I like the tag tree idea. Quite flexible indeed. Thanks! --- Yaniv On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Craig Taverner wrote: > Another factor to consider is multiple inheritance, where you are grouping > the people into overlapping groups. For example, you can have the > users/non.users