Anyway, why care how the data is stored? You need a catalog. You need an index. You need automation. Helps keeping order and helps with inevitable changes and flips and pivots and whims and trends and moods and backups and restoration and snapshots and history and versioning and moon travels and collaboration and compatibility and long summer evening walks and portability.
Your File System Is Already A Graph Database
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Re: Your File System Is Already A Graph Database
#22Isn’t the biggest benefit of graph databases the indexing and additional query constructs they support, like shortest path finding and whatnot?
Re: Your File System Is Already A Graph Database
#23Using the same logic, a key/value database is also a graph database? Isn’t the biggest benefit of graph databases the indexing and additional query constructs they support, like shortest path finding and whatnot?
https://neo4j.com/docs/graph-data-science/current/algorithms...
Re: Your File System Is Already A Graph Database
#24Using the same logic, a key/value database is also a graph database? Isn’t the biggest benefit of graph databases the indexing and additional query constructs they support, like shortest path finding and whatnot?
Yes, the author is likely unaware of this. They see markdown files with links, so a graph and the set of those files, so a "database". https://neo4j.com/docs/graph-data-science/current/algorithms...
Re: Your File System Is Already A Graph Database
#25I can't remember how many file structures I've already tried... LLMs seem to be a great help here. Also used CC to organize my messy harddrive. Now just need to find a good way to maintain the order...
> Also used CC to organize my messy harddrive. Do you still have your prompt by chance, and willing to share it? I took a stab at this and it didn't want to make much change. I think I need to be more specific but am not sure how to do that in a general way
and then worked from there, giving feedback on the proposed folder structure, until I was happy
Re: Your File System Is Already A Graph Database
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it has hard or soft links, its a proper graph.
On Linux at least, hard links can't be made to directories, except for the magic . and .. links. So this only allows for a DAG. Symbolic links can form a graph, and you can process them as needed using readlink etc. to traverse the graph, but they'll still be considered broken if they form a cycle.
Re: Your File System Is Already A Graph Database
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, the author is likely unaware of this. They see markdown files with links, so a graph and the set of those files, so a "database". https://neo4j.com/docs/graph-data-science/current/algorithms...
His argument is that the LLM is the query engine. By that logic you can approximate anything since LLMs can.
Re: Your File System Is Already A Graph Database
#28Using the same logic, a key/value database is also a graph database? Isn’t the biggest benefit of graph databases the indexing and additional query constructs they support, like shortest path finding and whatnot?
Yes, the author is likely unaware of this. They see markdown files with links, so a graph and the set of those files, so a "database". https://neo4j.com/docs/graph-data-science/current/algorithms...
Re: Your File System Is Already A Graph Database
#29Using the same logic, a key/value database is also a graph database? Isn’t the biggest benefit of graph databases the indexing and additional query constructs they support, like shortest path finding and whatnot?