Max De Marzi points to the slides for a presentation by Tobias Lindaaker on Neo4j internals (January, 2012).
When you see the linked lists you will understand why Neo4j doesn’t offer “merging” in the TMDM sense of the word. The overhead would be impressive.
See slide 9 (the way slideshare counts) for example.
I don’t know if these slides go with the January presentation (above), a presentation in May of 2012 (date at the bottom of the slides), or some other presentation. Dating presentation slides would help keep that straight.
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