Neo4j Data Modeling: What Question Do You Want to Answer?
Mark Needham:
Over the past few weeks I’ve been modelling ThoughtWorks project data in neo4j and I realised that the way that I’ve been doing this is by considering what question I want to answer and then building a graph to answer it.
This same principle should be applied to modeling with any NoSQL database. Thinking in terms of access patterns is one of the major differences between doing data modeling in the NoSQL space and the relational world, which is driven, at least in the first phases and theoretically, by the normalization rules.
Original title and link: Neo4j Data Modeling: What Question Do You Want to Answer? (©myNoSQL)
via: http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2012/05/05/neo4j-what-question-do-you-want-to-answer/
