What is the best practice for storing an audit trail in a graph

[Paul Jackson]

I have a graph and would like to store an audit entry containing user, date/time, and type of change for any changes that occur to the nodes and edges in the graph. I am not sure whether I would like this stored with the entities or centrally, nor how best to store it (string array property, numbered properties, etc.). Wondering if anyone has any ideas on the topic.

Thanks,

Paul Jackson

[Michael Hunger]

Where and how would you read those audit-trails?

Perhaps a log file would just be the easiest way of doing that.

Of course all this information is contained in the neo4j-logical logs, but there is no officially accessible reader for that.

Otherwise you can register a TransactionEventHandler on the GraphDatabaseService that can intercept and check all modifications and write them to wherever is suitable (the graph - e.g. a secondary linked list structure attached to each node) another kind of database or a regular text file.

Michael