Hi Vasia - Welcome to TinkerPop (linking you into the Flink thread as requested)...
- James On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Marko Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi James, > > Thank you for always having a ear to the tech pulse. If it wasn't for you, > I would still be excited about XMPP and would be programming in Tcl/Tk. > > Given my 20 minute review of their docs …… It would be cool if like the > "Table API," they also had a "Graph API" that was just TinkerPop > Graph/Vertex/Edge. That could be super intrusive, so as a simple step -- > they already have a "vertex-centric" API and thus, having a > FlinkGraphComputer implementation seems "easy." Then from there, Gremlin > should just work. I don't really understand the difference between steam > and batch unless they are talking the difference between "Storm" and > "MapReduce." ? Would be cool to see how TinkerPop fits into the > stream-scene. > > Next, their fluent API is similar to Spark's and I would argue that > Gremlin's API is much nicer than just low-level primitives like map(), > flatMap(), etc. Thus, they could really benefit from having a full graph > query language already available for their users. (As a side note, its > really nice to see more and more systems use functional/fluent APIs as this > really trains the next generation to think like this which is important as > Gremlin is purely this! Hopefully the SQL model of querying starts to look > odd to people in comparison.) > > I just sent out this tweet: > https://twitter.com/apachetinkerpop/status/668820458599530497 > > If they seem positive, I can detail in JIRA what would be required for > them to have TinkerPop-support. > > Thanks again James, > Marko. > > http://markorodriguez.com > > On Nov 19, 2015, at 12:19 PM, James Thornton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi - > > > > Apache Flink has a graph API named Gelly... > > > > https://flink.apache.org/news/2015/08/24/introducing-flink-gelly.html > > > > ...and Flink's "dedicated support for iterative operations" should pair > > well with Gremlin: > > > > https://flink.apache.org/features.html > > > > Has anyone dug into this yet? > > > > - James > > > > > > -- > > James Thornton, *http://electricspeed.com <http://electricspeed.com>* > > -- James Thornton, *http://electricspeed.com <http://electricspeed.com>*
