That helps. Thanks!
Scott On Friday, May 8, 2015 at 3:47:03 PM UTC-4, Scott Orr wrote: > > My team is setting up a database for an analytical layer of a website. > Our goal is to store large amounts of data related to our users and > inventory, such as information on browsing sessions, user feedback, tweets > and Facebook posts, etc. We want to be able to use that information to > make recommendations to users in real time (e.g., Amazon-type stuff, like > "Other people who viewed this item also viewed...."). > > We're using Orient 2.0.8. > > From looking at the Orient wiki and the questions answered on this and > other groups, we think we need to be using LINKLISTs for part of our > application. For example, we'd like to be able to store tweets about each > of the 20,000 items in our inventory. Ideally, the record for each item > would include links to each of those tweets, which could number in the tens > of thousands--and a LINKLIST seems like the obvious way to bundle all of > those links into a single property, with the added bonus that a LINKLIST is > ordered, which means that, among other things, we could pop the last 10 or > so tweets about a given item, and display those on the page describing that > item's details. > > My first question is, can a LINKLIST be used with bidirectional edges (I > assume they'd be lightweight edges)? We need to be able to traverse the > links in both directions. > > If LINKLISTs must consist only of unidirectional links, we'll have to > create links at end end of each pair (so, a LINKLIST pointing out of an > inventory item, to all of its related tweets, and a link from each tweet > back to that item). If we have to do this, can we still use the Graph API > to traverse those links, and if not, is link traversal any slower with the > Document API? > > > Thanks. > -- --- 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.
