[sf-perl] [sfpug] Practical theory: graphs
Josh Berkus
josh at agliodbs.com
Thu Dec 15 11:28:57 PST 2005
Chris,
> Why is it necessary to represent graphs in an RDBMS? I can't help but
> imagine that some graph-specific presistence mechanism would be simpler
> and more performant.
As much as I'm an RDBMS geek, I'll have to admit that there's no easy way
to do graphs in SQL. The one really big implementation I know of is
using a separate graph engine as a pseudotable and plugging that in to
their RDBMS. The problem with that approach, of course, is that it's not
transaction-compliant.
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