We have a business requirement to compare two graphs for equality.
After searching i found a MD5 example from apoc. Although it is resulting error as it simply uses string values from creating hash. i.e. it does a to string of whole node object.
We had issues where the property orders in a node is altered and MD5 is not working.
the fingertrprintgraph functions seems more well equipped but it has no provision to to use it on a specific graph. it works on complete db.
In short there is no meaning to compare two graph in whole because there is high chance that their id written differently, however you can compare subgraph which are very much similar in file content.
We cannot compare group of two people
(A,B,C) Vs (C,B,A) however we can compare A vs A.
Unfortunately my need is to compare two graphs as each graph as a whole signifies a unique data.
The fingertrprintgraph method does exactly that although it doesn't take a list of nodes as input and takes the whole db as context.
This really great that you got your answer.
I am not much aware of this and will go to read some white paper on the same.. However how how would you implement fingerprintgraph. Could you please give some ray of light so that I can start my finding from that angle.
Regards
Vivek
