Finally, someone has had the sense to put together a graph database which avoids all of the ridiculous restrictions and constraints within relational databases and allow one to be able to create queries that meet many, many types of situations rather than ones that had to be anticipated at the time of the creation of the database. Remains to be seen here is the implementation of the human interface and creating nodes relationships, etc. and how easy it is for the average person to do these things. The application itself contains little information or help and could be greatly improved with prompting and guidance based on context. There are videos to help guide the neophyte through exactly what a graft database is and how to form relations, attributes, etc. however the ones I have viewed are rather rudimentary. I am still working my way through these and intend to come back and expand on this review based on the information contained in the videos. The potential is definitely here. The opportunity to make this into a true semantic database is here as well. The ease with which the graph can be created along with the ease with which you can be cried I’ll be the determining factors as to whether this succeeds means organizing photos. I’m very excited to a found this application. I wish the same fundamental techniques such as directed graphs would be applied and many more situations, as people will find their intuitively much easier to use and traditional databases. We’ll see how the implementation plays out.
I return at this point to say that after several days of processing, only 221 of over 42,000 photos have uploaded and received default classifications. Please, please find a means of expanding processing on the server end or I’ll die of old age before my photos reach the server. I’d also like to see a way to incorporate the tag information that has been added on the iPhone end as data for network nodes. Lastly, if only this followed fully the directed graph/semantic graph model, the incredible power obtained for queries would make this the premier storage/retrieval means for commercial image and video data systems. Companies with products such as Neo4j have the server-side software already available. What is lacking is the ease of use front end work.
My decades of photos and videos are precious beyond description to me and the ability to find exactly what I’m looking for is the key to making the collection useful. Please continue to develop this product. To me it would be worth many times the current cost if developed further in these directions and server speed issues are resolved.
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