Neo4j for Ruby on Rails

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:00:00 +0000

“Neo4j is a graph database. It is an embedded, disk-based, fully transactional Java persistence engine that stores data structured in graphs rather than in tables. A graph (mathematical lingo for a network) is a flexible data structure that allows a more agile and rapid style of development.”

Neo4j allows you to map objects to nodes and relations, that is a more natural fit than mapping them to relational tables. Modeling with elements of a graph is substantially faster for semistructured data (Recall that semistructured data is data that has few mandatory but many optional attributes).

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