propelgraph

Java API for property graphs

The goal of this project is to create a portable Java API for performant property graph implementations. It will provide a compatibility layer for using TinkerPop implementations with this API, but the most performant implementations will support this API directly.

Latency and Throughput

The API will be tuned somewhat to provide low latency and low memory overhead for in-process property graph implementations, but it will also strive to provide an API that can allow implementations to provide high throughput.

Portability

The final goal of this API is to be truly portable so that calling code need write as little code as possible that is specific to the underlying implementation. This does mean that occasionally this project will provide slower API's than the underlying implementation if a single truly portable performant interface is not possible. Even in that case, a more performant API might also be provided if a number of property graph implementations might be able to support it.

Simplification, not a goal

Where possible, this API will build upon TinkerPop Blueprints. Due to the goals above, implementations of this API will have more interfaces than a simple TinkerPop implementation. This is to reduce impedance mismatch between calling code and implementation. As an example, API's supporting "int" will be provided in addition to API's supporting "java.lang.Integer". This prevents applications from the burden of creation and garbage collection of Integer objects if the calling application only needs primitive int support.

JavaDoc

propelgraph-interfaces - javadoc

propelgraph-memgraph - javadoc

propelgraph-util - javadoc

Demo