Andy, have you looked at http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/ACL ? I tried to take the user-group-content (which could be anything really) and explain a security strategy that the Neo Technology team has been using in several cases with great success. It's of course just a suggestion, but maybe that gets you going?
Cheers, /peter neubauer COO and Sales, Neo Technology GTalk: neubauer.peter Skype peter.neubauer Phone +46 704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer http://www.neo4j.org - Relationships count. http://gremlin.tinkerpop.com - PageRank in 2 lines of code. http://www.linkedprocess.org - Computing at LinkedData scale. On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:10 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > As I'm thinking a Db design through I'm realizing how much my brain is > accustomed to tabular SQL-Type organization. Getting used to thinking i terms > of Graphs is taking a little time. l'd like to get a little feedback on a > couple design issues to see if I'm on the right track. > > I want to design a Node space with a specific content and relationship > structure. Alongside the content is a typical unix like "User/Group" system. > my initial thought was to create a property for each node for a UserId and > GroupId as a key value. But then I thought why not simply create a > relationship between the user/group node to each of his/her content nodes. > This would make querying much easier. > > In general it seems that the data saved with specific nodes should be limited > to data which specific to that node like name, title, article text etc. Other > information which deals with classification, categorization and organization > like types, users, groups, tagging etc. should be represented with > relationships. > > I'm wondering if this is a reasonable way of learning to think in terms of > Graphical-DBs? > > It would be nice if something like this were in the Wiki, where users could > share their design experiences. It might fit here: > http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/Guidelines_for_Building_a_Neo_App > or here: http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/Domain_Modeling_Gallery > But I don't yet have any Neo Design experience so I cannot speak with much > authority. However, if desired I could start a page in the Wiki. > > Thanks > > Andy Potter > _______________________________________________ > Neo mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
