Re: State of the Intergalactic Union on TinkerPop and Its Federated Developers and Users

[Alexander Patrikalakis <am...@gmail.com>]

We just released the support for Titan 1.0.0 and TP3 on the DynamoDB 
Storage Backend for Titan.

Cheers,
Alex

On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 6:59:38 AM UTC-7, Marko A. Rodriguez 
wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was typing away for the October2015 Podling status update and Stephen 
> ping'd me and was like "TinkerPop doesn't have to do one this month." I had 
> written up a nice report so I decided to share the contents with everyone 
> as I think what we have done (and are doing) is quite impressive.
>
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>
> TinkerPop's adoption is growing. Nearly every popular graph system vendor 
> is "TinkerPop enabled." Interestingly enough, even RDF graph systems 
> (historically in another area of graph computing) are starting to provide 
> TinkerPop connectivity. I had breakfast with Kendall Clark (in Santa Fe of 
> all places) on Sunday and he was talking about Stardog's TP3 integration 
> and it is impressive what they are doing with TinkerPop for Stardog4 (being 
> released this week). I will be helping them on a blog post about 
> Stardog4+TinkerPop3.
>
> * Neo4j
> * OrientDB
> * Stardog (RDF)
> * Titan
> * Blazegraph (RDF)
> * IBM BlueMix Graph
> * Sqlg
> * Apache Spark
> * Apache Giraph
> * Apache Hadoop
>
> Furthermore, there are many graph systems that are still 
> TinkerPop2-enabled in the process of migrating to TinkerPop3.
>
> Amazon (the providers of DynamoDB) just announced Titan integration for 
> DynamoDB and that supports TinkerPop2. With Titan 1.0 just released, we 
> will see Amazon supporting TinkerPop3. As a cloud service provider that 
> enables a "flip of the switch" to get a DynamoDB cluster up and running, 
> there will be lots of Tinker-and-Popping on AWS.
>
> http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/08/titan-graphdb-integration-in-dynamodb.html
>
> https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-store-and-process-graph-data-using-the-dynamodb-storage-backend-for-titan/
>
> DataStax (the commercial providers of Apache Cassandra) just announced 
> that they will be providing a graph system called DSEGraph whose sole 
> interface will be TinkerPop3. They are committed to Apache TinkerPop and 
> are banking on it for the graph aspect of their business.
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/kromerm/datastax-cassandra-summit-2015-the-datastax-vision-for-a-multimodel-data-platform/8
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-datastax-tie-up-cassandra-on-azure-deal-as-new-titan-graph-database-rolls-out/
> With the recent publication of two articles on the "Gremlin virtual 
> machine" we hope to see a growth in the number of languages that compile to 
> Gremlin.
>
> http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/the-benefits-of-the-gremlin-graph-traversal-machine
> http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03843
> Right now, there exists SPARQL-Gremlin (proof-of-concept) which really 
> helps to blur the distinction between the RDF and Property Graph worlds, 
> thus expanding TinkerPop into another area of developers, consumers, 
> promoters, and the like.
> https://github.com/dkuppitz/sparql-gremlin
> When I was at Cassandra Summit last week, I spoke with Ted Wilmes who used 
> Apache Calcite to compile SQL to TinkerPop2. He has some initial plans to 
> use Apache Calcite to compiled SQL to Gremlin3 and thus, we may be opening 
> the doors to the entire SQL world to use graph technology for both OLTP and 
> OLAP graph processing. That could be huge.
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/twilmes/modeling-the-iot-with-titandb-and-cassandra
> I've stated that I would like to see SPARQL-Gremlin or SQL-Gremlin 
> ultimately as a 3rd reference language implementation merged into 
> TinkerPop3. As such, I'm keeping a close eye on both projects to see how 
> they evolve and see where we can help take them.
>
> There have been 3 TinkerPop3-focused conference presentations recently:
> 1. NoSQL Now: 
> http://www.slideshare.net/slidarko/the-gremlin-traversal-language
> 2. Cassandra Summit: 
> http://www.slideshare.net/StephenMallette/tinkerpopfinal
> 3. Keynote at ACM Database Programming Languages: 
> http://2015.splashcon.org/event/dbpl2015-dbpl-keynote-gremlin-a-stream-based-functional-language-for-oltp-and-olap-graph-computing
>
> Look at #3 above. Gremlin is the keynote at an ACM conference. This means 
> that the academic community is realizing the benefits of TinkerPop not only 
> from a "we can build stuff"-perspective (as we get in industry) but from a 
> "that is a theoretically trippy concept"-perspective (as we get in 
> academia). I have a new article I am working on for an upcoming conference 
> that will hopefully get us tapped into another space of academics (beyond 
> "just graphs."). The ideas in the upcoming article will be presented at 
> GraphDay (January of 2016). I plan to demonstrate what I believe to be the 
> craziest concept to hit the graph space yet.
> http://graphday.com/
> It will fry brains…be there or be normal.
>
> And that, my fellow TinkerPoppers, is my interpretation of the major 
> accomplishments of our work here at Apache TinkerPop.
> http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/tales-from-the-tinkerpop
>
> The future looks bright for TinkerPop with 3.0.2 and 3.1.0 releases coming 
> over the remainder of this year.
>
> Take care,
> Marko.
>
> http://markorodriguez.com
>
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