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About Apache TinkerPop
Apache TinkerPop™ is a graph computing framework for both graph databases (OLTP) and graph analytic systems (OLAP). Gremlin is the graph traversal language of Apache TinkerPop. Gremlin is a functional, data-flow language that enables users to succinctly express complex traversals on (or queries of) their application's property graph. Every Gremlin traversal is composed of a sequence of (potentially nested) steps. A graph is a structure composed of vertices and edges. Both vertices and edges can have an arbitrary number of key/value pairs called properties. Vertices denote discrete objects such as a person, a place, or an event. Edges denote relationships between vertices. For instance, a person may know another person, have been involved in an event, and/or have recently been at a particular place. If a user's domain is composed of a heterogeneous set of objects (vertices) that can be related to one another in a multitude of ways (edges).
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HugeGraph is a fast-speed and highly-scalable graph database. Billions of vertices and edges can be easily stored into and queried from HugeGraph due to its excellent OLTP ability. As compliance to Apache TinkerPop 3 framework, various complicated graph queries can be accomplished through Gremlin (a powerful graph traversal language). Among its features, it provides compliance to Apache TinkerPop 3, supporting Gremlin. Schema Metadata Management, including VertexLabel, EdgeLabel, PropertyKey and IndexLabel. Multi-type Indexes, supporting exact query, range query and complex conditions combination query. Plug-in Backend Store Driver Framework, supporting RocksDB, Cassandra, ScyllaDB, HBase and MySQL now and easy to add other backend store driver if needed. Integration with Hadoop/Spark. HugeGraph relies on the TinkerPop framework, we refer to the storage structure of Titan and the schema definition of DataStax.
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StarTree
StarTree, powered by Apache Pinot™, is a fully managed real-time analytics platform built for customer-facing applications that demand instant insights on the freshest data. Unlike traditional data warehouses or OLTP databases—optimized for back-office reporting or transactions—StarTree is engineered for real-time OLAP at true scale, meaning:
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3. Past states of documents are as important as their present, necessitating retention and queryability of their change history.
Also see this blog post for an intro - https://blog.recallgraph.tech/never-lose-your-old-data-again.
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