Nodes are people, too by Philip Rathle.
From the post:
Today we are releasing Milestone Release Neo4j 2.0.0-M01 of the Neo4j 2.0 series which we expect to be generally available (GA) in the next couple months. This release is significant in that it is the first time since the inception of Neo4j thirteen years ago that we are making a change to the property graph model. Specifically, we will be adding a new construct: labels.
We’ve completed a first cut at a significant addition to the data model: one that we believe nearly every graph will benefit from. Because this is a major change, it merits feedback, and we are opening the code up now for early comment. Please therefore consider 2.0 to be an experimental release. This first milestone is intended to solicit your input. In addition to the new technology being work-in-progress, some of the new terminology is also work-in-progress. We look forward to making 2.0 a better release together, with your feedback. Please tell us how you’d like to use these changes. We can’t wait to hear what you think.
Read the post for the introduction to “labels” for nodes.
Suggest you run 1.8/9 along side the experimental release 2.0.0-M01.
Something about the modeling of person by adding a property to the node strikes me as odd.
Rather than creating a “person” node with an edge to the original node.
Can’t put my finger on it but will be playing with it this week.
What other features would you like to see?
I’m thinking scope on properties would be high on my list.