I would love to understand the relationship between GraphQL and TinkerPop, and to participate in any calls that happen. I watched a video back when GraphQL was announced and discussed briefly on this list. I don't understand exactly why they call this "Graph Query Language", as it seems like a Query-By-Example (QBE) language, i.e. here's the structure of the result I expect. The GraphQL data model seems to be hierarchical, and thus not necessarily well-suited to general graph queries. It made me curious about "graph literals", and whether there was a similarly terse syntax for indicating the schema of a graph. GraphQL feels like JSON without any values, i.e. keys only. That's only an approximation, but the ability to specify a graph schema by value-erasure of a graph literal is appealing.
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Marko Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello TinkerPoppers, > > Please see this: > https://facebook.github.io/relay/docs/thinking-in-graphql.html > > GraphQL seems to be popping up more and more. It would be great if someone > in their community built a compiler to Gremlin's instruction set so that > GraphQL (like Kupptiz's SPARQL-Gremlin) worked over TinkerPop-enabled graph > systems. Does anyone have any insights into how the GraphQL community > functions and who to talk to to try and get some collaboration between > TinkerPop and GraphQL? > > Thanks, > Marko. > > http://markorodriguez.com > >
