I agree completely with you. Orientdb has very unique and powerful 
features. Just that a little bit of stability will make it beautiful

On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 10:14:11 PM UTC+5:30, EJ wrote:
>
> Hello Everybody,
>
> I have just finished writing a clojure wrapper for the tikerpop  layer of 
> orientdb (all existing are outdated) and I have so say that the Tinkerpop 
> stack is in my opinion a very weak solution for graph applications with 
> orientdb!
>
> Many of the unique features of OrientDB (embedded list/maps/documents etc) 
> are not or only with tricks available. To me it would make sense to 
> reconsider the question if a "native" graph handling (including a query 
> language) that does use the specific advantages of Orientdb would be so bad 
> after all. The SQL commands are fine for the work with documents but i 
> found them rather uncomfortable for graphs compared with cypher.
>
> The background of my work is also the evaluation of OrientDB for the use 
> at a large company but the entry barrier is high compared to other 
> databases like neo4j. 
>
> Many people will get used to neo4j because cypher is powerful, easy to 
> learn and comes out of the box: Most applications start small and with 
> smaller graphs the performance differences will not be obvious. 
>
> To work with graphs on top of OrientDB you have to setup the db, get 
> around with the Tinkerpop stack - especially gremlin (and groovy), and plug 
> in jung on top to have comparable functionality - quite a journey.
>
>
> I have been thinking about developing something on my own - is anybody 
> interested in this topic?
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> EJ
>
>
>

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