Find “friends of friends” with OrientDB SQL

Question

Although one of the most common use cases for demonstrating the capabilities of a graph database, I cannot seem to find a good example or best practice for obtaining \"friends o

Answer 1

This should be much simpler:

select expand(
  bothE('is_friend_with')[status = 'approved'].bothV()
  .bothE('is_friend_with')[status = 'approved'].bothV()
) from user where uuid = '95920a96a60c4d40a8f70bde98ae1a24'

With bothE() and then bothV() you get both in/out connections at edge/vertex level.

In order to exclude current user you could use:

select expand(
  bothE('is_friend_with')[status = 'approved'].bothV()
  .bothE('is_friend_with')[status = 'approved'].bothV()
  .remove( @this )
) from user where uuid = '95920a96a60c4d40a8f70bde98ae1a24'