What's the difference between class name & shortname in OrientDB?

Question

What's the difference between class name & shortname in OrientDB?

Reference: https://github.com/orientechnologies/orientdb/wiki/SQL-Alter-Class

Is there any difference in regard to performance or disk space usage?

Thanks!

Answer 1

While shortname acts as an alias for a class (see OrientDB Issue 901 - "...change shortName to alias" in some contexts, it seems that shortname can't be used universally in reference to the class. For example:

• select from <shortname> works as expected, selecting the records associated with the class for which shortname is an alias;
• drop class <shortname>, however, does not actually drop the corresponding class (just tried this with version 1.6.3).

Unfortunately, you'll probably have to do your own instrumentation to determine runtime performance and/or disk usage for your application.