On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:20 PM, David Beckwith<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm deciding between CouchDB and Neo4j for a project. What's really > important to me is the speed of graph traversal and scalability. > > CouchDB wins in scalability I think, but probably Neo4j wins in graph > traversal.
CouchDB's map reduce views aren't really suited for graph traversal, but external indexers are a first class citizen. Take a look at the CouchDB Lucene project to see how you can integrate any incremental indexer: http://github.com/rnewson/couchdb-lucene/tree/master > > http://highscalability.com/neo4j-graph-database-kicks-buttox > > How well does CouchDB with graph traversal. And is there a way to map- > reduce graph traversal? > > Thanks, > David :) > -- Chris Anderson http://jchrisa.net http://couch.io
