Any time you introduce an unnecessary transformation step (native types -> XML/JSON -> native types), you're introducing multiple types of overhead. Perhaps a more native/binary protocol would enable a better generic remote invocation layer (with multiple types of formats supported based on the requestor's preference). Also, the "atomicity" of the way many REST-ful API's are designed/optimized often makes it difficult/undesirable to maintain a 1:1 correlation with the Neo API. You might want to offer both a "raw" (ability to do TX stuff) and an "atomic" (implicit transactions) version. I suppose another consideration if doing very granular API calls remotely is connection and communications management (socket vs HTTP vs whatever) and the implications of this in an HA environment.
I guess what I'm suggesting is that there probably is no single answer, and the most functional solution may require multiple ways of surfacing Neo's functionality to remote consumers. -----Original Message----- From: user-boun...@lists.neo4j.org [mailto:user-boun...@lists.neo4j.org] On Behalf Of Peter Neubauer Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 2:04 AM To: neo4jrb; Neo4j user discussions Subject: Re: [Neo4j] Release 1.0.0.beta.22 Great stuff Andreas, we had a great evening in Barcelona yesterday, showing off the great work you, Ben and all the others are doing! Fantastic API and features! Craig and me are working on getting the Neo4j Spatial supported (at least the basic features) as a normal index provider in Neo4j. That would mean that you then in Neo4j.rb can directly ask not only text queries with Lucene but even spatial queries. Would be very cool to get that in, too :) Btw, what does everyone feel about REST vs. native protocols like RMI, Protobuffers, etc that can support a full Neo4j remote API for integration, with TX etc and would be optimized for driver development in other langs, minicing the Java core API capabilities very close? Any thoughts or preferences on one or the other? Does REST do a sufficiently good job for production use from other langs? What would you like to see in REST to get there - top 3 features? We are just trying to figure out the best way to expose and support the different Remote options ... Cheers, /peter neubauer GTalk: neubauer.peter Skype peter.neubauer Phone +46 704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Andreas Ronge <andreas.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I've just released 1.0.0.beta.22 > > The big news is that you can now use the rails console while the rails > application is already running. > > I first tried to access neo4j remotely via RMI and DRb but there were > to many problems doing that, so > instead I simply create a read only neo4j db when needed. > > CHANGELOG > * If a neo4j write instance is already running it will instead start a > read only neo4j db instance. > * Upgrade JARS to 1.2.M04 > * Does not automatically start Neo4j when used in Rails. E.g. now you > can type rails routes without the database starting. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neo4jrb" group. > To post to this group, send email to neo4...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to neo4jrb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neo4jrb?hl=en. > > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
