[Data-modeling] underlying graph database

Scott Meyer sm at metaweb.com
Tue Jan 22 18:59:53 UTC 2008


Can Altineller wrote:
> Hello John,
> 
> Is your graph database based on object oriented database logic? In
> otherwords, lets say you have a node - and want to get neighbooring nodes:
> does your database require a BTree search again, or do you just track
> objects without making any search as in an object database?

A little bit of both actually: We don't store "objects" in any sense
that would be familiar to OODB or OO-relational folks.  We can,
however lay hands on neighboring graph primitives very rapidly.
Queries which simply extract a couple of object fields typically
run considerably faster than 10ms with no N log N scaling
artifacts.

-Scott


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