Are lookups by ID also so much slower than traversals? Aseem
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Mattias Persson <matt...@neotechnology.com>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user