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TinkerPop Compendium

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Apache TinkerPop™ has an extensive set of documentation that covers virtually all aspects of usage. This documentation tends to fall into the following categories:

  1. Reference Documentation - The primary documentation for TinkerPop which provides the most complete guide to TinkerPop usage. All other documentation tends to exist in support of this reference guide.

  2. Tutorials - Brief but detailed explanations of specific technologies, patterns, use cases or best practices related to TinkerPop.

  3. Publications - Blog posts, technical papers, presentation materials, etc.

  4. Developer - Documentation for contributors to TinkerPop or for providers (i.e. those who implement TinkerPop’s interfaces).

  5. Javadoc - The full Javadoc for all TinkerPop modules. There is also an abridged version of the core interfaces which may be more convenient in some cases.

  6. .NET Docs - The API documentation for Gremlin.Net.

  7. JSDoc - The JSDoc for gremlin-javascript.

  8. Upgrade Documentation - Notes related to upgrading from one version of TinkerPop to the next. This document describes breaking changes, major new features and other important information related to a particular version.

Note
 Some of the documentation listed here leads to third-party web sites. Such documentation is supplemental to Apache TinkerPop. Third-party documentation is marked as such in the listings below.

Tutorials

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Getting Started with TinkerPop
A gentle introduction to TinkerPop and the Gremlin traversal language that is divided into five, ten and fifteen minute tutorial blocks.

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The Gremlin Console
Provides a detailed look at The Gremlin Console and how it can be used when working with TinkerPop.

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Gremlin’s Anatomy
Identifies and explains the component parts of a Gremlin traversal.

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Gremlin Recipes
A collection of best practices and common traversal patterns for Gremlin.

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Sql2Gremlin
Learn Gremlin using typical patterns found when querying data with SQL. (external)

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Getting Started with Graph Databases
A brief overview of RDBMS architecture in comparison to graph, basic graph terminology, a real-world use case for graph, and an overview of Gremlin. (external)

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The Gremlin Compendium, minimum survival kit for any Gremlin user
A series of blog posts that examine the Gremlin language in the context of various graph traversal patterns. (external)

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Practical Gremlin: An Apache TinkerPop Tutorial
A getting started guide for users of graph databases and the Gremlin query language featuring hints, tips and sample queries. (external)

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Gremlin Snippets
Advanced Gremlin query samples and topics with detailed explanation. (external)

Publications

Unless otherwise noted, all "publications" are externally managed:

Developer

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Contributors
Provides information on ways to contribute to TinkerPop as well as details on building the project and other specific information for contributors.

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Providers
Documentation for providers who implement the TinkerPop interfaces, develop plugins or drivers, or provide other third-party libraries for TinkerPop. It also include information on semantics of the Gremlin language itself.

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IO Reference
Reference Documentation for providers and users of the various IO formats that TinkerPop has: GraphML, GraphSON, GraphBinary and Gryo.

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Future
A roadmap and catalog of ideas for discussion and future development.