2015-06-17 8:19 GMT+02:00 Chris Waldron <[email protected]>: > > A lightweight edge is an edge that has no properties. If I use edge > inheritance is that a strategy to maintain lightweight edge without having > to use a property. > > Say for example I used an edge "MemberOf" and I wanted to know the member > type. > > If I used a property to hold the type then according to the documentation > that would not be a lightweight edge. > > That's right. The underneath difference between lightweight and regular edges is that regular ones are represented as documents inside the database. A lightweight edge is just a field in the outgoing node and another field in the ingoing node, pointing each other.
> But if say I defined new edge classes that inherited from "MemberOf" say > "UserOf extends MemberOf" then would the use of UserOf be a lightweight > edge. > > Also if I query on the UserOf edge can I expect only the UserOf edges to > be returned? > Yes, you right. Cheers, Riccardo -- --- 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.
