Stefan, as you're in Germany you probably want to come along to our Berlin Graph-Meetup tomorrow (Tue, June 28th, c-base Raumstation, Berlin Mitte, starts at 1900).
http://www.meetup.com/graphdb-berlin/ Cheers Michael Am 27.06.2011 um 15:37 schrieb Stefan Zapf: > Hi Jim, > > thanks for taking the time to answer my newbie questions! We were > thinking about trying to spread anything that could be usefully queried > over multiple nodes to enhance the search algorithms. Just when I saw > the firts graph forming, it seemed like jungle that my brain couldn't > penetrate. Having no experience we got some doubt, but it's good to hear > from you that we can follow our initial impulse. > > If I can, I will come to one of the tutorial sessions. Thanks for the > invite! > > Best > Stefan > > > > > > > > > Am 27.06.2011 14:57, schrieb Jim Webber: >> Hi Stefan, >> >> These are good points, and I don't think we have yet reached a mature level >> of best practice as the relational folks have. But I don't think graph >> modelling is too hard. I have a couple of rules of thumb: >> >> 1. Model entities as entities and use relationships to describe how those >> entities are related, don't be tempted to do anything more than basic facts >> - the aggregate of all those basic facts is sophisticated knowledge. >> >> 2. If you find your relationships have names like SENT_EMAIL_TO then you're >> missing an entity (in this case an email entity, naturally). So instead of >> >> Alice --SENT_EMAIL_TO-->Bob >> Alice--CC_EMAIL_TO-->Charles >> >> Use >> >> Alice-->SENT-->A specific email node >> Bob<--TO--A specific email node >> Charles<--CC--A specific email node >> >> That is, always look for places where you've hidden useful entities within >> relationships. >> >> FWIW Ian Robinson and I are doing the rounds doing a Neo4j tutorial that >> covers some of this kind of design material. Hop on one of those courses if >> you can. Otherwise the tutorial material is freely available here: >> https://github.com/jimwebber/neo4j-tutorial >> >> Jim >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
