My personal 2c is that, since GraphX is just beginning to provide a full featured graph API, I think it would be better to align with the TinkerPop group rather than roll our own. In my mind the benefits out way the detriments as follows:
Benefits: * GraphX gains the ability to become another core tenant within the TinkerPop community allowing a more diverse group of users into the Spark ecosystem. * TinkerPop can continue to maintain and own a solid / feature-rich graph API that has already been accepted by a wide audience, relieving the pressure of “one off” API additions from the GraphX team. * GraphX can demonstrate its ability to be a key player in the GraphDB space sitting inline with other major distributions (Neo4j, Titan, etc.). * Allows for the abstract graph traversal logic (query API) to be owned and maintained by a group already proven on the topic. Drawbacks: * GraphX doesn’t own the API for its graph query capability. This could be seen as good or bad, but it might make GraphX-specific implementation additions more tricky (possibly). Also, GraphX will need to maintain the features described within the TinkerPop API as that might change in the future. From: Kushal Datta <kushal.da...@gmail.com<mailto:kushal.da...@gmail.com>> Date: Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 4:00 PM To: "York, Brennon" <brennon.y...@capitalone.com<mailto:brennon.y...@capitalone.com>> Cc: Kyle Ellrott <kellr...@soe.ucsc.edu<mailto:kellr...@soe.ucsc.edu>>, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com<mailto:r...@databricks.com>>, "dev@spark.apache.org<mailto:dev@spark.apache.org>" <dev@spark.apache.org<mailto:dev@spark.apache.org>>, Matthias Broecheler <matth...@thinkaurelius.com<mailto:matth...@thinkaurelius.com>> Subject: Re: Implementing TinkerPop on top of GraphX Before we dive into the implementation details, what are the high level thoughts on Gremlin/GraphX? Scala already provides the procedural way to query graphs in GraphX today. So, today I can run g.vertices().filter().join() queries as OLAP in GraphX just like Tinkerpop3 Gremlin, of course sans the useful operators that Gremlin offers such as outE, inE, loop, as, dedup, etc. In that case is mapping Gremlin operators to GraphX api's a better approach or should we extend the existing set of transformations/actions that GraphX already offers with the useful operators from Gremlin? For example, we add as(), loop() and dedup() methods in VertexRDD and EdgeRDD. Either way we get a desperately needed graph query interface in GraphX. On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:25 PM, York, Brennon <brennon.y...@capitalone.com<mailto:brennon.y...@capitalone.com>> wrote: This was my thought exactly with the TinkerPop3 release. Looks like, to move this forward, we’d need to implement gremlin-core per <http://www.tinkerpop.com/docs/3.0.0.M1/#_implementing_gremlin_core>. The real question lies in whether GraphX can only support the OLTP functionality, or if we can bake into it the OLAP requirements as well. At a first glance I believe we could create an entire OLAP system. If so, I believe we could do this in a set of parallel subtasks, those being the implementation of each of the individual API’s (Structure, Process, and, if OLAP, GraphComputer) necessary for gremlin-core. Thoughts? From: Kyle Ellrott <kellr...@soe.ucsc.edu<mailto:kellr...@soe.ucsc.edu>> Date: Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 12:10 PM To: Kushal Datta <kushal.da...@gmail.com<mailto:kushal.da...@gmail.com>> Cc: Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com<mailto:r...@databricks.com>>, "York, Brennon" <brennon.y...@capitalone.com<mailto:brennon.y...@capitalone.com>>, "dev@spark.apache.org<mailto:dev@spark.apache.org>" <dev@spark.apache.org<mailto:dev@spark.apache.org>>, Matthias Broecheler <matth...@thinkaurelius.com<mailto:matth...@thinkaurelius.com>> Subject: Re: Implementing TinkerPop on top of GraphX I still have to dig into the Tinkerpop3 internals (I started my work long before it had been released), but I can say that to get the Tinerpop2 Gremlin pipeline to work in the GraphX was a bit of a hack. The whole Tinkerpop2 Gremlin design was based around streaming pipes of data, rather then large distributed map-reduce operations. I had to hack the pipes to aggregate all of the data and pass a single object wrapping the GraphX RDDs down the pipes in a single go, rather then streaming it element by element. Just based on their description, Tinkerpop3 may be more amenable to the Spark platform. Kyle On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Kushal Datta <kushal.da...@gmail.com<mailto:kushal.da...@gmail.com>> wrote: What do you guys think about the Tinkerpop3 Gremlin interface? It has MapReduce to run Gremlin operators in a distributed manner and Giraph to execute vertex programs. The Tinkpop3 is better suited for GraphX. On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Kyle Ellrott <kellr...@soe.ucsc.edu<mailto:kellr...@soe.ucsc.edu>> wrote: I've taken a crack at implementing the TinkerPop Blueprints API in GraphX ( https://github.com/kellrott/sparkgraph ). I've also implemented portions of the Gremlin Search Language and a Parquet based graph store. I've been working out finalize some code details and putting together better code examples and documentation before I started telling people about it. But if you want to start looking at the code, I can answer any questions you have. And if you would like to contribute, I would really appreciate the help. Kyle On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com<mailto:r...@databricks.com>> wrote: > cc Matthias > > In the past we talked with Matthias and there were some discussions about > this. > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 11:34 AM, York, Brennon < > brennon.y...@capitalone.com<mailto:brennon.y...@capitalone.com>> > wrote: > > > All, was wondering if there had been any discussion around this topic > yet? > > TinkerPop <https://github.com/tinkerpop> is a great abstraction for > graph > > databases and has been implemented across various graph database backends > > / gaining traction. 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