I agree, TinkerPop is ready for graduation. We have gone through the ASF Maturity Model checklist to ensure all facets have been considered and addressed.
TinkerPop has a diverse community and its ecosystem is growing fast, and this will only accelerate with the evolutions of graph DB technology coming down the pipe. For example, the Blazegraph team recently released its TP3 adapter and added GPU-accelertion to Blazegraph, which "demonstrated a throughput of 32 Billion Traversed Edges Per Second (32 GTEPS), traversing a scale-free graph of 4.3 billion directed edges in 0.15 seconds" ( https://www.blazegraph.com/product/gpu-accelerated/). The TinkerPop stack is becoming the standard in the graph world. For example, in a SIGMOD'15 paper published by Google Research and IBM Watson Research, they cited Gremlin as "the de facto standard property graph query traversal language": - "SQLGraph: An Efficient Relational-Based Property Graph" http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/43287.pdf And in the paper, they showed how Gremlin can be adapted to exploit relational query optimizers in relational databases like PostgreSQL. The paper was written before TP3's release, and Marko's work on on the Gremlin Graph Traversal Machine makes it even easier to extend TinkerPop with domain-specific languages optimized for specific platforms: - "The Gremlin Graph Traversal Machine and Language" http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03843 For example, see SPARQL-Gremlin contributed by Daniel Kuppitz: - SPARQL-Gremlin (https://github.com/dkuppitz/sparql-gremlin). TinkerPop integrates with several Apache projects, including Apache Giraph and Apache Spark, and more integrations are in the works. For example, see these discussions on the Apache Flink mailing list about providing a TinkerPop3/Gremlin FlinkGraphComputer: - http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/Apache-Tinkerpop-amp-Geode-Integration-td9252.html - Flink/Gelly Roadmap https://pony-poc.apache.org/thread.html/Zo9ikvjuupvvw91 It's time for TinkerPop to move to the next level and join these projects as a top-level Apache project. - James On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Stephen Mallette <spmalle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Given that we've resolved the issues presented by our mentor Daniel Gruno > in the ASF Maturity Model (that he was good enough to fill out for us), it > seems that the next step is to more officially achieve some consensus on > graduating. Let's use this thread to handle sorting out any issues related > to that. > > I believe that while the ASF Maturity Model isn't a mandatory assessment > required for graduation, I think it provided an accurate picture of where > TinkerPop is right now. We have a solid community with great contributors > that continues to grow. Based on these things, I'd say it's time to move > forward with graduation from incubator! > > This is meant to be a community discussion, so please feel free to provide > your thoughts on this matter. > > Thanks, > > Stephen > -- James Thornton, *http://electricspeed.com <http://electricspeed.com>*
