Awesome Nested Set VS Closure Tree

Compare Awesome Nested Set vs Closure Tree and see what are their differences.

Awesome Nested Set

An awesome replacement for acts_as_nested_set and better_nested_set. (by collectiveidea)
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Awesome Nested Set Closure Tree
2 2
2,375 1,816
0.1% 0.1%
5.5 5.7
about 1 month ago about 2 months ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Awesome Nested Set

Posts with mentions or reviews of Awesome Nested Set. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-01.

Closure Tree

Posts with mentions or reviews of Closure Tree. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-25.
  • Hierarchical Structures in PostgreSQL
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jun 2021
    I'm actually using materialized views and CTE with PhotoStructure (where hierarchies are arguably the cornerstone of the product).

    It's pretty funny that I landed on this implementation, given that I spent a couple years building https://github.com/ClosureTree/closure_tree (one of the most popular acts-as-hierarchy ActiveRecord gems), as it (unsurprisingly) uses closure trees.

    When CTE isn't available, closure trees are nice, but boy howdy, does that closure tree table get gigantic with deeper graphs.

    If CTE is available, closure trees don't even come close in performance and simplicity.

    (Hint: materialized paths should use a unique separator: ASCII 0x1F is applicable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes#Field_...)

  • Find all objects of a chain of associations on the same table
    2 projects | /r/rails | 2 Mar 2021
    I’ve used this for that https://github.com/ClosureTree/closure_tree

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Awesome Nested Set and Closure Tree you can also consider the following projects:

Ancestry - Organise ActiveRecord model into a tree structure

ActsAsTree - ActsAsTree -- Extends ActiveRecord to add simple support for organizing items into parent–children relationships.

Mongoid Tree - A tree structure for Mongoid documents using the materialized path pattern

rails_or - Cleaner syntax for writing OR Query in Rails 5, 6. And also add #or support to Rails 3 and 4.

LeftJoins - Backport left_joins method from Rails 5 for Rails 3 and 4

DbTextSearch - A unified interface on top of ActiveRecord for case-insensitive string-in-set and prefix querying, and full-text search on SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

Filtered - Filters ActiveRecord queries in a nice way

ActiveRecordExtended - Adds additional postgres functionality to an ActiveRecord / Rails application