Yup, +1 on that. This is just a workaround for expressing things in property graph language. I think for proper HyperGraph support, we need to go a bit further in the modeling and querying capabilities. Will be interesting to see what you cook up :)
Cheers, /peter neubauer 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 - Your high performance graph database. http://startupbootcamp.org/ - Öresund - Innovation happens HERE. http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Niels Hoogeveen <pd_aficion...@hotmail.com>wrote: > > Hi Peter, > Thanks for sharing this. Layout-wise, the solution you present is not > really different from what Enhanced API does with regard to n-ary > relationships. I would like to know if there is an elegant creation pattern > for n-ary relationships, or do you have to rely on a manual creation of the > proper edge-node and role-relationships? > The query to extract information from the graph is however quite different > from what I am aiming for. > The back-operator is an interesting one and necessary in this situation, > whereas I would like to do a query like that without the use of a > back-operator. This is possible when the filter operator can take a > traversal of itself, something of the form filter(in("groupIn").name = > "group2") > I think a traversal should in principal be performed with a query language > that is not turing complete so we can guarantee termination. This is > especially important in a REST architecture where we can't control the type > of queries asked. > Niels > > > > From: peter.neuba...@neotechnology.com > > Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:19:00 +0200 > > To: user@lists.neo4j.org > > Subject: [Neo4j] Hyperedges in Neo4j > > > > Hi folks, > > I took a discussion over at Tinkerpop as the excuse to put in an example > of > > modeling and traversing Hyperedges in neo4j (in this case with Gremlin). > Of > > course this is nowhere near Nils thinking, but for simple cases this > might > > serve as a pattern. > > > > > http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/snapshot/gremlin-plugin.html#rest-api-hyperedges---find-user-roles-in-groups > > > > Let me know if you find that helpful. > > > > Cheers, > > > > /peter neubauer > > > > 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 - Your high performance graph > database. > > http://startupbootcamp.org/ - Öresund - Innovation happens HERE. > > http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. > > _______________________________________________ > > Neo4j mailing list > > User@lists.neo4j.org > > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
