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Schema: Typed topology

Open lmeyerov opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Most property graph systems follow a typed topology, which is useful information for a path query synthesizer

  • The method should extract for the connected database(s) a description of typed & directed connectivities. Using cypher syntax, this might look like:
(s:T1)-[e:T2]->(d:T3)
(s:T1)-[e:T2]->(d:T4)
(s:T1)-[e:T5]->(d:T6)
...

To simplify manipulation, this should be represented with some sort of typed representation vs a big string:

@dataclass
class TypedTriple
  directed: bool
  source_type: str
  edge_type: str
  destination_type: str

async def infer_typed_topology(...) -> List[TypedTriple]
  • Databases may be large, e.g., billion scale, so a strategy or controls should be in place to support working with large systems

Note that node/edge attributes are not represented, nor are details like path lengths

lmeyerov avatar May 13 '23 02:05 lmeyerov