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The Gremlin Graph Traversal Language

by okram on 8/23/15, 3:23 PM with 14 comments

  • by liorn on 8/23/15, 7:07 PM

    Python developer here. Here's my rant.

    I've been using OrientDB (one of the leading Graph databases) for the last few months; it's been a horrible experience to get it working with Python, as the official Python OrientDB driver is essentially a very thin wrapper around the binary protocol.

    Using Gremlin would actually be nice, and save me a lot of nasty queries, but it seems like there is no python ecosystem for it. The presentation mentions "Gremlin-Python". A quick Google search brings up these results:

    1. "Bulbs" (http://bulbflow.com/download/) - it's a dead project, last commit being 10 months ago. Look at https://github.com/espeed/bulbs

    2. "Gremlin-Python" - https://github.com/pokitdok/gremlin-python . Dead project (last commit 6 months ago), and requires one to install Jython.

    I would love to know if I've missed something - did anyone get Python to nicely work with Gremlin?

  • by fxbois on 8/23/15, 4:40 PM

    Anyone could mention some benefits of Gremlin over Cypher ?