#database

Interesting Links, 2017-Feb-23

Maven Polyglot: replacing pom.xml with Clojure, Scala, or Groovy Script shows how you can, well, replace the XML configuration for a Maven project with a configuration in another language. This also provides some imperative-ish features to Maven projects, plus no XML except for a short description of the scripting language. How does a relational database work provides a (very) high level description of how a relational database does its work – and if you...

Feb 23, 2017 — 2 minute(s) read

#certificate #database #garbage-collection #gc #git #graph-database #jep #maven #neo4j #security #titan

Detecting Roots in a Graph, and a challenge

How would you detect roots in a simple directed graph? I was recently asked this question, with varying parameters, and there’s an aspect of the problem for which I have no satisfying solution. A root is a node which points to other nodes, but has no nodes pointing to it; in our simple problem, a root has to point to something, so we don’t have to worry about handling nodes hanging out in...

Oct 3, 2014 — 8 minute(s) read

#database #graph #mapreduce #testing