Easy and Fast Tree/Graph Traversal and Social Networking in Drupal
Everybody knows that dealing with hierarchies in a relational database is awkward, and depending on your needs it gets ugly, or downright impossible to do quickly in SQL (lots of queries needed, etc).
What if...
- you could do such operations with simple single queries?
- you could have not only simple trees but also complex ones (multiple parents) ?
- you could have complex graphs for friend-of-a-friend or other structures?
GRAPH engine does all that, without breaking a sweat. Externally it looks like a table and a storage engine, but internally it's a computational engine, in this case specialised for graph operations.
It's GPLv2, and available now for MySQL 5.0 and 5.1
Speaker: arjen
arjen
Arjen is Exec.Director at Open Query, based from Brisbane Australia. He likes spending time with his daughter, travelling, walking and camping. He also loves to cook, and growing his own herbs and veggies.
Ohyes, and Open Query does MySQL magic for you: remote support/DBA, OQGRAPH engine.... but Arjen would like you too to enjoy your free time, so he and his gang help you design well and prevent trouble, rather than play "fire department".
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