| Just to make the conversation easier the use case I have is a network topology so you have things like routers, switches, ports etc. If you take it all the way up to Layer 7 (Application) you can have say web services etc. So you could in theory say link X was cut what is affected? Anyways... my basic POC was exposing endpoints so I can do things like. /devices/list
/network/shortestPath?node1=<>&node2=<> to get a list of all devices but I'm basically just writing custom Cipher code to do that query and the benefits of Neo4J basically go out the door. It still has some interesting Graph features but if all i'm doing is writing a custom endpoint for every use case it's mainly pointless. You can do a simple POST statement which takes a Neo4J query and execute it with some caching on top of it for sure. Either ways in order to make Neo4J worth it I need a way to make the queries more dynamic. So right now I'm thinking of: - restQL http://restql.b2w.io/
- GraphQL https://graphql.org/ Or just having a dumb POST /custom/query that maybe only supports read operations. You can add a layer of auth but I'm not a big fan of just having some endpoint that's basically a Pipe to Neo4j. It feels just as bad as saying, typing any SQL here and we'll execute it on the server. If people know what they're doing that's fine..but at that point just setup phpMyAdmin/ pgAdmin. At that point you're trusting folks to know what they're doing and if folks accidently drop Bobby Tables (https://xkcd.com/327/) then it's an accepted risk. If you just have a proxy to run any Cipher query, you might as well just provide users on Neo4J web instance and let them play there. Anyways, still in early stages trying to figure out how to best leverage Neo4J |
I didn't know Restql. thanks for the link