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Yes, it's like Neo4j but based on the in-memory database LMDB, presumably to provide high performance running on a single machine. The link mentions that its u
by antonvs 8y ago
Yes, it's like Neo4j but based on the in-memory database LMDB, presumably to provide high performance running on a single machine.
The link mentions that its use case is streaming seed set expansion, which allows you to identify communities based on a set of seeds. I wrote more about that in this comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17335873 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17335873
- hyc_symas 8y agoQuibble: LMDB is a memory-mapped file database. It is not an in-memory database, although it generally outperforms all other in-memory databases.
- antonvs 8y agoThanks, this is the first I had heard of LMDB. I actually love the idea of a memory-mapped database, I've often thought memory mapping isn't taken advantage of enough.