Hi Marko, James, I talked with the Flink project founders at Apachecon this summer and they were favorable about TInkerPop, although they admitted never having heard about it.
We probably need to help them out if we want to enable their platform. It looks like they are getting good traction, particularly in Europe. I did a tweet or two back in the summer, but have not had a chance to circle back around with them. A Gremlin/TP interface on Flink would be "most excellent". :-) ....and a nice Apache play as well. On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 11:05 AM, James Thornton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Vasia - > > Welcome to TinkerPop (linking you into the Flink thread as requested)... > > - James > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Marko Rodriguez <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi James, > > > > Thank you for always having a ear to the tech pulse. If it wasn't for > you, > > I would still be excited about XMPP and would be programming in Tcl/Tk. > > > > Given my 20 minute review of their docs …… It would be cool if like the > > "Table API," they also had a "Graph API" that was just TinkerPop > > Graph/Vertex/Edge. That could be super intrusive, so as a simple step -- > > they already have a "vertex-centric" API and thus, having a > > FlinkGraphComputer implementation seems "easy." Then from there, Gremlin > > should just work. I don't really understand the difference between steam > > and batch unless they are talking the difference between "Storm" and > > "MapReduce." ? Would be cool to see how TinkerPop fits into the > > stream-scene. > > > > Next, their fluent API is similar to Spark's and I would argue that > > Gremlin's API is much nicer than just low-level primitives like map(), > > flatMap(), etc. Thus, they could really benefit from having a full graph > > query language already available for their users. (As a side note, its > > really nice to see more and more systems use functional/fluent APIs as > this > > really trains the next generation to think like this which is important > as > > Gremlin is purely this! Hopefully the SQL model of querying starts to > look > > odd to people in comparison.) > > > > I just sent out this tweet: > > https://twitter.com/apachetinkerpop/status/668820458599530497 > > > > If they seem positive, I can detail in JIRA what would be required for > > them to have TinkerPop-support. > > > > Thanks again James, > > Marko. > > > > http://markorodriguez.com > > > > On Nov 19, 2015, at 12:19 PM, James Thornton <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi - > > > > > > Apache Flink has a graph API named Gelly... > > > > > > https://flink.apache.org/news/2015/08/24/introducing-flink-gelly.html > > > > > > ...and Flink's "dedicated support for iterative operations" should pair > > > well with Gremlin: > > > > > > https://flink.apache.org/features.html > > > > > > Has anyone dug into this yet? > > > > > > - James > > > > > > > > > -- > > > James Thornton, *http://electricspeed.com <http://electricspeed.com>* > > > > > > > -- > James Thornton, *http://electricspeed.com <http://electricspeed.com>* >
