Ok, that is how I was understanding things. And I agree, would prefer to build on performance verses find out later that I need the performance of the lighweight edge, especially if, as you said, I don't have a need for the benefits regular edges provide.
On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 11:50:57 AM UTC-4, Riccardo Tasso wrote: > > Hi, > from a practical point of view to me it's pretty the same if using > Regular or Lightweight edges. The important thing is to use in your queries > the out() and in() functions, which works with the same semantics with both > edges. > > I suggest you to use Regular edges only if you need some properties other > than label over them, such as weight or something like that. Otherwise > there is no need. > > Cheers, > Riccardo > > 2015-03-12 16:32 GMT+01:00 Jeffrey Auguste <[email protected] > <javascript:>>: > >> My understanding so far is that OrientDB has two type of Edges. Regular >> and Lightweight. The regular provides more flexibility and functionality at >> the cost of additional storage and performance. Its also my understanding >> that the lightweight edge is by default turned off with orientdb which >> makes it seem as though regular edges is the preferred over lightweight. >> >> So my questions are: >> 1. Is the difference in performance and/or storage significant with >> standard edges vs lightweight? If so, is it only affected in large >> databases? If so, what is considered Large? >> 2. The documentation states that Lightweight edges are hard to work with? >> If you agree, is it so difficult that you would question using them instead >> of regular edges? >> 3. Which do you prefer? In what situation would you switch to using the >> alternate edge to your preference? >> >> -- >> >> --- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
