Introduction

What is Ruruki? Well the technical meaning is “any tool used to extract snails from rocks”.

So ruruki is an in-memory directed property graph database.

Documentation

See ruruki documentation here.

Visualization tool

See ruruki's visual graph exploration tool called Ruruki-eye

Demo

To see an online demo of ruruki-eye follow the following link http://www.ruruki.com.

What data does the demo instance have

The demo site is a software dependency graph of the ruruki library/package.

Tips while using and navigating and exploring the data

Search Page
- Is split into 4 columns,
  - Label: Known labels to the graph database.
  - Property key dropdown: Every property name for that particular label.
  - filter operation type: Type of filter operation that you are performing. See EntitySet filter
  - value searching for: Value that you are searching for. Note that * will return all vertices for that label.
- Display all vertices known to the database, click the search button with no filters.
Navigating
- Once you have clicked on a vertex from the search page, you will see the selected vertex in the center of your page with the direct incoming and outgoing edges.
- Double click on the bubbles to follow
See the help menu on the navigation page for shortcuts.
To show multiple levels at once, add ?levels=<number> to the url. Eg: http://ruruki.com/vertices/0?levels=1

NOTE

ruruki-eye is only a demo site and may feel laggy and slow. This is not a reflection on actual performance. It is recommended to pip install ruruki-eye locally and run it.