On 5/2/2010 2:21 PM, Michael Ludwig wrote:

> I'm building a model for holding a graph such as for a social network.
> There is a table to hold the users (nodes), and another to hold the
> acquaintances (edges). I'm wondering how best to define the edge table.
>

Aren't social networks comprised of connections between peers? If so,
wouldn't the more accurate and easier data model to have just one table
listing each person with a second table that reflects the many-to-many
relationships between two people in the first table?

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