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A Python persistence framework for graph databases like Neo4j, OrientDB and Titan.

2Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
619GitHub stars
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What it is

A Python persistence framework for graph databases like Neo4j, OrientDB and Titan.

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:28:18 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-02-18 17:11:30 UTC to 2015-08-23 19:07:54 UTC.

0122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Python developer here. Here's my rant. I've been using OrientDB (one of the leading Graph databases) for the last few months; it's been a horrible experience to get it working with Python, as the official Python OrientDB driver is essentially a very thin wrapper around the binary protocol. Using Gremlin would actually be nice, and save me a lot of nasty queries, but it seems like there is no python ecosystem for it. The presentation mentions "Gremlin-Python". A quick Google search brings up these results: 1. "Bulbs" (http://bulbflow.com/download/) - it's a dead project, last commit being 10 months ago. Look at https://github.com/espeed/bulbs 2. "Gremlin-Python" - https://github.com/pokitdok/gremlin-python . Dead project (last commit 6 months ago), and requires one to install Jython. I would love to know if I've missed something - did anyo
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ne get Python to nicely work with Gremlin?
In The Gremlin Graph Traversal Language

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