What is OrientDB's indexing scheme?

Question

Just like the question says. Are there explicit indexes you need to add your documents into? Or is it automatic secondary indexes?

Answer 1

There are both kinds of indexes:

• automatic, created against the schema and populated automatically. This is very close to what RDBMS offers
• manual, created and populated manually using Java API, HTTP REST protocol or plain SQL using "index:" as prefix instead of the class name.

For more information look at: http://code.google.com/p/orient/wiki/Indexes