Are you thinking of GraphDatabaseService#getNodeById / #getRelationshipById ? Or index lookups?
2011/6/16 Aseem Kishore <aseem.kish...@gmail.com> > 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 > -- 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
