Hi Erich, On 13 August 2014 22:52, Erich Heine <[email protected]> wrote:
> I ended up choosing OrientDB because: > > * Part of my data model was very painful with a traditional SQL database, > whereas graphs work nicely. > * Parts of my data model very much like the Document DB aspects of Orient > - especially the EMBEDDED* types. > * Licensing is good > * The various query/fetching methods - SQL dialect, gremlin, direct object > load, etc, map to various ways I think about accessing my data. > * The times I want to enforce schema, I can, which gives me a certain > level of type-safe comfort I enjoy. > > The reason I chose against Neo4j was mostly licensing, the above is just a > nice benefit. > Thanks for the feedback ;-) > > A couple of Orient cons from my POV: > > * When working in a non-jvm language, it somewhat painful to use the > binary or http interfaces. The http interface feels a bit inconsitent, and > arbitrary when it comes to return values, and what can and cannot be done, > rather than a full API. e.g. I use python, and interfacing with full > features is just frustrating sometimes (and bulbflow/rexster don't really > allow me to use everything fully) > If you have any specific issue to report against API calls, we can work on it. > > * Some things are non-intuitive in the "Orient way of doing things", and > it's taken a lot of experimenting to get things done sometimes. Being a > small community still, not every question I have is answered by a simple > google search. > This part needs a bigger re-work, mostly by using a new SQL Engine more compliant, more strict and with a better reporting in case of errors. Then we need to improve documentation, this is something everybody ask for. Lvc@ > > HTH > > > On Thursday, January 5, 2012 11:56:14 PM UTC-6, Luanne Misquitta wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> Did any of you consider using neo4J and why did you pick OrientDB over it? >> >> Thanks >> Luanne >> > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OrientDB" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OrientDB" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
