Just a simple comment, you can also use a relationship called REPLY-TO to track the relationship between messages...
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 06:55, Michael Hunger < [email protected]> wrote: > It depends on the size of your user-base / complexity of your application's > chat system. > > If you have millions of users having millions of chats this wouldn't be so > much fun. Otherwise it should work. > > You can always hide the implementation behind an API in your app and then > be able to change how you actually store the chats later. > > You could implement the chats just as a message nodes that are connected to > the chat, and the author. > Properties would be text and timestamp. Those nodes could also additionally > be linked from HEAD to LAST to traverse the chat. There could be a special > relationship from the "chat"-ndoe to the HEAD of the conversation. > > Another idea is to have the chat message just on the relationship between > author and chat (same properties as above). You could use a timeline index > for accessing them in the right order. > > You could also have a look at the neo4j-collections API that Niels > implements and use just a linked list of that API. > > Cheers > > Michael > > > Am 26.07.2011 um 00:48 schrieb noppanit: > > > I'm implementing chat feature in my application, but the main features > I'm > > still using neo4j for relationships. BTW, I'm not sure how am I going to > > implement chat log in neo4j, because it's not about relationships. Should > I > > just go for mongodb or other nosql database in this particular case? > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://neo4j-community-discussions.438527.n3.nabble.com/Neo4j-and-chat-log-structure-tp3198962p3198962.html > > Sent from the Neo4j Community Discussions mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > > Neo4j mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
