I don't know your use case at all, but one of the benefits you get with traversing compared to index lookups is that one hop from a node to another is instantaneous ( > 1 million hops / second on a fully cached graph), whereas index lookups are several order of magnitudes slower than that. But index lookups are good for when you f.ex. have thousands/millions of names and you'd like to get the node with a certain name. Then that would be your starting point for doing a traversal to find other information "local" to that node, or in its vicinity.
2011/6/13 Aman <aman.6...@gmail.com> > What is faster - Traversals or Indexing? I mean if one has a database model > that can offer a choice between the two, what should one choose? > Also, what about when the scalability factor comes in? > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > -- Mattias Persson, [matt...@neotechnology.com] Hacker, Neo Technology www.neotechnology.com _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
