ESespeed·Jul 5, 2011
Even though it's over REST, you can still have "transactional domain objects wrapped around nodes and relationships." Neo4j is working on providing RESTful transactions for the Neo4j REST server (http://www.mail-archive.com/user@lists.neo4j.org/msg08253.ht...), and you can already do this with Rexster.
Here's a Bulbs (Python) example of what a domain object looks like wrapped around a node:
from bulbs.model import Node, Relationship
from bulbs.datatype import Property, Integer, String
class Person(Node):
element_type = "person"
name = Property(String, nullable=False)
age = Property(Integer)
james = Person(name="James", age=34)
julie = Person(name="Julie", age=28)
Relationship.create(james,"knows",julie)
As I said in another thread, Bulbs connects to Neo4j through the Rexster REST server, and binary b
Read the rest
indings are in the works.
But with Bulbs and Rexster you are not limited to just Neo4j -- you can connect to any Blueprints-enabled graph database (https://github.com/tinkerpop/blueprints/wiki/). In addition to Neo4j, this also includes TinkerGraph, Dex, OrientDB, OpenRDF Sail, and others. InfiniteGraph (http://www.infinitegraph.com/) has a Blueprints implementation under development (see http://blog.infinitegraph.com/2011/02/04/infinitegraph-annou...)