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I am underwhelmed with this post that shows that, metaphorically, when using a hammer vs. a screwdriver to insert a nail into wood, the hammer tends to perform
by mwexler 15y ago
I am underwhelmed with this post that shows that, metaphorically, when using a hammer vs. a screwdriver to insert a nail into wood, the hammer tends to perform better. Perhaps I missed some big discussion on how great MySQL performs on graphs, because it would seem the wrong tool for graph traversal.
And a stacked bar graph was probably not the best way to display these findings.
However, other posts on the blog (markorodriguez.com) are more interesting, such as the application of a graph traversal approach to a collaborative filtering recommendation algo.
- rkalla 15y agoI see your point; I interpreted the post to be more targeted at folks that weren't aware of Neo4j or graph-specific data stores and might be trying to hammer their nails in with screwdrivers (only know MySQL and nothing else) and the post was enlightening them to what is waiting at the end of the rainbow... or some analogy like that :)
- espeed 15y agoPerhaps I missed some big discussion on how great MySQL performs on graphs, because it would seem the wrong tool for graph traversal. You can represent a graph in almost any data structure and because of this people do it all the time, but it isn't as performant because in MySQL you have to hit an external index on each traversal step, whereas the in a graph DB, each node caries an index of its adjacent nodes.