> > (not sure why they didn't use a proven high speed graph DB myself - but > then I am biased!).
I am guessing its because they only need 1st order relations (there are little friend of a friend or higher operations on twitter) and were very worried about scalability and sharding (as far as I am aware there is no way for a Neo Db to be bigger than one machine at the moment). Not to mention that they probably have considerable mysql infrastructure and expertise.... I think its pretty obvious that FlockDB will be very slow for 'deep' traversals (network protocol speed alone will ensure this as FlockDb will need to talk to mysql on each node visited), but for order 1 traversals (e.g. what boils down to a join across a mapping table) mysql is probably a lot faster (no transactional overhead for read ops). Al _______________________________________________ Neo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
