, it definitely seems do-able with Neo.
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Subject: Re: [Neo] Type metadata in properties/nodes
workarounds/alternatives using relationships.
Cheers,
Rick
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Subject: Re: [Neo] Type metadata in properties/nodes
From: Tobias Ivarsson tobias.ivars...@neotechnology.com
Date: Wed, December 09, 2009 5:39 am
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: [Neo] Type metadata in properties/nodes
Hi Rick,
there are a number of interesting approaches to this, involving both
ways to retain the metadata:
1. RDF and OWL
- basically, every node will maintain a relationship to its type node
(your shadow node), something like x
I can see how relationships could be used to map is a duck. typing, but
I'm struggling with how to infer type from properties. In particular, while
anything could be stuffed into a String, it loses important semantics when
you do so. I'm not referring to *storage* as a String, which makes plenty
Hi Rick,
there are a number of interesting approaches to this, involving both
ways to retain the metadata:
1. RDF and OWL
- basically, every node will maintain a relationship to its type node
(your shadow node), something like x?--RDF:TYPE--type_node which
contains info on what the type is, what
Btw,
I added this to the FAQ,
http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/FAQ#What_ways_of_encoding.2Fholding_metadata_and_type_of_nodes_and_properties_are_there.3F
and will put in there any more suggestions, so please come forth,
hackers and coders!
Cheers,
/peter neubauer
COO and Sales, Neo Technology
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 3:25 PM
To: Neo user discussions
Subject: Re: [Neo] Type metadata in properties/nodes
Hi Rick,
there are a number of interesting approaches to this, involving both
ways to retain the metadata:
1. RDF and OWL
- basically, every node will maintain a relationship to its
Hi!
Instance nodes then maintain a two-way relationship with their associated
Type node so that any node can quickly obtain its Type node and so we can
easily traverse all instances of a specific type
I'm not sure what you mean by two-way relationship, but relationships
can always be
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