Your implementation here has much to do with how you intend to use the social graph.
Are you simply caching, or do you intend to identify metrics by analyzing the shape of the relationships over time? If you're simply creating a local cache, blowing away the existing store and serializing the response from the api call is sufficient, since you cannot divide the results except by page. If you intend to get a little fancier, there are plenty of algorithms for diff'ing the results. Your saving grace is that the result set is a list of integers. If you take a little time to sort results, you will be able to perform your diffs swiftly. my two cents, not adjusted for inflation. On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Arik Fraimovich<arik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Aug 15, 10:56 pm, Kevin Mesiab <ke...@mesiablabs.com> wrote: >> If you store them as blobs, we're going to revoke your compiler privileges. > > Good thing that lately I was mainly doing PHP or Python, so no > compiler privileges were needed - only parser > > Any other comments on the question in hand? > > Thanks, > -- > Arik Fraimovich > follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/arikfr > -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
