I'm only at the point of figuring out if there are enough graph providers who can implement single label mutability to warrant the discussion of whether or not we should have it in TinkerPop. Thanks for weighing in from sqlg perspective.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 2:47 PM, pieter <[email protected]> wrote: > Sqlg does not support changing a vertex label. > In our case however it could be as trivial as a ALTER TABLE command. > > Neo4j supports many labels per node/element which is significantly > different to TinkerPop's label semantic. > Would you propose that also or just editing the one label? > > Thanks > Pieter > > > > > On 30/11/2015 21:29, Stephen Mallette wrote: > > It occurred to me today while responding to a post regarding Titan that > TP > > 3 APIs assume that vertex labels are immutable. Titan is happy with that > > because it doesn't allow such things, but it made me wonder about other > > providers. > > > > A quick bit of research showed that Neo4j could support such a thing: > > > > http://neo4j.com/docs/stable/query-set.html#set-set-a-label-on-a-node > > > > I was wondering if other providers could comment on their ability to > > support modifying a vertex label after the vertex is created. If we find > > that it is such that many providers could support it then maybe the TP3 > API > > should support that. > > > >
