Relationship-Types are already stored separately and just referenced via an ID, so renaming them should be something the Neo4j store should offer.
Cheers Michael Am 05.05.2011 um 19:46 schrieb Rick Bullotta: > Example: Today I call them "cars", but tomorrow I simply want to call them > "deprecatedTransporationVehicles". If I have used an integral "type-id", I > can make this change trivially at the display level. If I have used strings, > I cannot... > > -----Original Message----- > From: user-boun...@lists.neo4j.org [mailto:user-boun...@lists.neo4j.org] On > Behalf Of Achim 'ahzf' Friedland > Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 1:44 PM > To: Neo4j user discussions > Subject: Re: [Neo4j] First-class "type" property on relationships but not > nodes; why? > > Am 05.05.2011 19:19, schrieb Rick Bullotta: >> In general, I think it's a good idea to avoid strings as "types" for a whole >> host of reasons (performance, future renaming/refactoring, etc.). > > Having type-ids for performance reasons instead of type-strings is okay, > but because of future renaming/refactoring?!? > > What will you do when you have two seperate (semantic web) graphs on > seperate machines and now one of the graphs moves to the other machine? > Do you sync/renumber the type-ids of one of the graphs? Or do you > support two Ids for the same type-string? I think this problem is today > in the linked data area more important than supporting someone who just > want's to change the name of some vertices/edge types. For this we could > always use MapReduce (without the reduce of course ;). > > In the end having type-strings or better type-URIs is slow but the only > real future-proof solution ;) > > Cheers... > Achim > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
