I actually think this discussion on supernodes is very valuable - we've seen it crop up in a small, bit significant, number of implementations and we've seen credible and hairy workarounds.
[pure speculation follows] I'm wondering whether it would be possible to intercept the write to the "red" colour node (as in Rick's domain) and redirect that to an underlying balanced tree (effectively an index of red things). That is, the "red" node is actually a function which as a side-effect attaches relationships to nodes in a balanced tree-of-red. All of which happens without any explicit stopping and calling out to separate indexes. I suspect this is non-trivial given we optimise around a stable, performant on-disk structure, but I'd love* to hear the kernel hacker's views on this. Jim * Unless those views are that I'm a bozo, then I'll just reluctantly hear them for the sake of completeness. _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
