Edges: connecting the dots

Edges let users navigate between entities and let the search engine scope results to a neighbourhood of the graph.

graph.Link(customer, ticket, Edges.HasTicket, Edges.TicketOf);
//          source    target   forward name    reverse name (optional)

Name edges so traversals read like sentences. HasTicket, ForProduct, OwnedBy — not RelatedTo or LinkedWith.

Add an edge when a user would:

• Navigate — "all tickets for this customer"
• Filter — "only results for product X"
• Facet — "ticket count by status"

If none of those apply, it's a property.

→ Graph model