Product Catalog

Product Catalog

= Product Catalog
Aravind R. Yarram <yaravind@gmail.com>
v1.0, 17-Sep-2013

== Domain

A product catalog is a collection of products, their categories, manufacturers with their pricing information. Products can be sold separately, included in one or more catalogs or used as substitute products

You can perform the following operations on a product:
Create, Update, Delete (Not recommended, deactivate instead), Deactivate (We should deactivate products that are no longer available instead of deleting them, because they are included in past orders, quotes, or opportunities.), Search etc.

A store organizes its *Products* +OF_TYPE+ *Category* into one or more *Catalogs*. A Catalog thus becomes a hierarchy of Categories. A Category can be +PARENT+ of one or more child categories. This lending itself naturally to be modeled as a graph. Each Product and Category can have distinct set of attributes than others which also fit nicely into property graph model (otherwise would require a EAV - Entity Attribute Value relational model). 

A Product can be +SUBSTITUTE_FOR+ another Product. A product can have one or more +MODELs+, each model has +PRICING+ associated with it. This is not a complete solution for all the product catalog use cases but provides a good starting point. I will slowly keep modelling more use cases.

image::https://raw.github.com/funpluscharity/avleague/master/avleague/src/test/resources/product-catalog.jpg[Domain Model]


== Setup

The sample data set uses Bicycle catalog.

//hide
//setup
//output
[source,cypher]
----
CREATE (summerCatalog:Catalog{ name:'Summer Outdoor Bicycle Catalog' })

CREATE (bikes:Category { name:'Bikes' })
CREATE (accessories:Category { name:'Accessories' })
CREATE bikes-[:PARENT]->summerCatalog
CREATE accessories-[:PARENT]->summerCatalog

CREATE (roadBikes:Category { name:'Road Bikes' })
CREATE (kidsBikes:Category { name:'Kids Bikes' })
CREATE roadBikes-[:PARENT]->bikes
CREATE kidsBikes-[:PARENT]->bikes

CREATE (roadWindBike:Product { name:'Road Wind Bike' })
CREATE (chargeMixerBike:Product { name:'2013 Charge Mixer Street Road Bike' })
CREATE (schwinnSlickerBike:Product { name:'2013 Schwinn Slicker Flat Bar Road Bike' })
CREATE (fujiDeclarationBike:Product { name:'2013 Fuji Declaration Single Speed City Bike' })
CREATE (schwinn4Bike:Product { name:'2013 Schwinn 4 One One 1 Urban Bike' })
CREATE (kidsRoadBike:Product { name:'Kids Road Bike' })
CREATE (kidsMountainBike:Product { name:'Kids Mountain Bike' })

CREATE roadWindBike-[:OF_TYPE]->roadBikes
CREATE kidsRoadBike-[:OF_TYPE]->roadBikes
CREATE kidsRoadBike-[:OF_TYPE]->kidsBikes
CREATE chargeMixerBike-[:OF_TYPE]->roadBikes
CREATE schwinnSlickerBike-[:OF_TYPE]->roadBikes
CREATE fujiDeclarationBike-[:OF_TYPE]->roadBikes
CREATE schwinn4Bike-[:OF_TYPE]->roadBikes
CREATE kidsMountainBike-[:OF_TYPE]->kidsBikes

CREATE (cityBikes:Category { name:'City Bikes' })
CREATE (enduranceBikes:Category { name:'Endurance Bikes' })
CREATE cityBikes-[:PARENT]->roadBikes
CREATE enduranceBikes-[:PARENT]->roadBikes

CREATE (singleSpeedBike:Product { name:'Single Speed Bike' })
CREATE (fujiGrandBike:Product { name:'Fuji Grand Fando' })
CREATE singleSpeedBike-[:OF_TYPE]->cityBikes
CREATE fujiGrandBike-[:OF_TYPE]->enduranceBikes

CREATE (schwinn:Manufacturer{ name:'Schwinn' })
CREATE (fuji:Manufacturer{ name:'Fuji' })
CREATE (charge:Manufacturer{ name:'Charge Bikes' })

CREATE chargeMixerBike-[:MANUFACTURED_BY]->charge
CREATE kidsMountainBike-[:MANUFACTURED_BY]->charge
CREATE schwinnSlickerBike-[:MANUFACTURED_BY]->schwinn
CREATE schwinn4Bike-[:MANUFACTURED_BY]->schwinn
CREATE singleSpeedBike-[:MANUFACTURED_BY]->schwinn
CREATE fujiDeclarationBike-[:MANUFACTURED_BY]->fuji
CREATE roadWindBike-[:MANUFACTURED_BY]->fuji
CREATE kidsRoadBike-[:MANUFACTURED_BY]->fuji
CREATE fujiGrandBike-[:MANUFACTURED_BY]->fuji

//Substitutes
CREATE roadWindBike-[:SUBSTITUTE_FOR]->singleSpeedBike

//Models
CREATE (small:Model {type:"Small", height:52, weight:23.98 })
CREATE (large:Model {type:"Large", height:56, weight:15.23 })

CREATE fujiDeclarationBike-[:MODEL]->small
CREATE fujiDeclarationBike-[:MODEL]->large

CREATE (smallPrice:Price {list: 1200, retail: 1100, validFrom:1380584607035, validUntil:1414641600000})
CREATE (largePrice:Price {list: 1250, retail: 1150, validFrom:1380584607035, validUntil:1414641600000})

CREATE small-[:PRICING]->smallPrice
CREATE large-[:PRICING]->largePrice
----
 
=== Try other queries yourself!
//console
 
== Use Cases

== All catalogs
[source,cypher]
----
MATCH c:Catalog RETURN c.name AS Catalogs
----
 
//table
 
== All categories by Depth
[source,cypher]
----
MATCH p=cats:Category-[:PARENT|PARENT*]->cat:Catalog 
WHERE cat.name='Summer Outdoor Bicycle Catalog' 
RETURN LENGTH(p) AS Depth, COLLECT(cats.name) AS Categories 
ORDER BY Depth ASC
----

//table

== All categories of a given level
[source,cypher]
----
MATCH p=cats:Category-[:PARENT*]->cat:Catalog 
WHERE cat.name='Summer Outdoor Bicycle Catalog' AND length(p)=1
RETURN cats.name AS CategoriesOfGivenLevel 
ORDER BY CategoriesOfGivenLevel
----
 
//table
 
== All sub-categories of a given category
[source,cypher]
----
MATCH p=cats:Category-[:PARENT]->parentCat:Category, parentCat-[:PARENT*]->c:Catalog 
WHERE parentCat.name='Road Bikes' AND c.name='Summer Outdoor Bicycle Catalog' 
RETURN collect(cats.name) AS SubCategories
----
 
//table
 
== All Parent and their child categories
[source,cypher]
----
MATCH p=child:Category-[:PARENT*]->parent 
RETURN parent.name, collect(child.name)
----
 
//table
 
== All parent and their IMMEDIATE children
[source,cypher]
----
MATCH p=child:Category-[:PARENT*]->parent 
WHERE length(relationships(p))=1 
RETURN labels(parent), parent.name, collect(child.name)
----
 
//table
 
== All products of a given category
[source,cypher]
----
MATCH p:Product-[:OF_TYPE]->c:Category 
WHERE c.name='Road Bikes' 
RETURN p.name
----

== Running low on inventory? Recommend another substitute.
[source,cypher]
----
MATCH p:Product-[:SUBSTITUTE_FOR]->other:Product 
WHERE other.name="Single Speed Bike" 
RETURN p.name
----

//table

== Get various models of the selected product
[source,cypher]
----
MATCH p:Product-[:MODEL]->m:Model 
WHERE p.name="2013 Fuji Declaration Single Speed City Bike" 
RETURN p AS Modles
----
 
//table

== All Categories and their Products of a given catalog
[source,cypher]
----
MATCH p:Product-[:OF_TYPE]->c:Category-[:PARENT*]->ctl:Catalog 
WHERE ctl.name='Summer Outdoor Bicycle Catalog' 
RETURN c.name AS Category, collect(p.name) AS Products
----

//table

== Time to get the shipping and pricing info so as to calculate the total price to be charged
[source,cypher]
----
MATCH p:Product-[:MODEL]->m:Model-[:PRICING]->price:Price 
WHERE p.name="2013 Fuji Declaration Single Speed City Bike" AND m.type="Large" AND price.validFrom <= timestamp() AND price.validUntil >= timestamp() 
RETURN price.list AS ListPrice, price.retail AS RetailPrice, m.height AS Height, m.weight AS Weight
----

//table
 
== All the categories of a given product in the given catalog
[source,cypher]
----
MATCH p:Product-[:OF_TYPE]->c:Category-[:PARENT*]->ctl:Catalog 
WHERE p.name='Kids Road Bike' AND ctl.name='Summer Outdoor Bicycle Catalog' 
RETURN c.name
----
 
//table

== Manufacturers and their products
[source,cypher]
----
MATCH m:Manufacturer<-[:MANUFACTURED_BY]-p:Product 
RETURN m.name AS Manufacturer, collect(p.name) AS Products
----
 
//table

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