rexster

A Graph Server (no longer active - see Apache TinkerPop)

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Jun 20	2011-06-20 00:00:00 UTC	2011-06-27 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Jun 27	2011-06-27 00:00:00 UTC	2011-07-04 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 4	2011-07-04 00:00:00 UTC	2011-07-11 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Jul 11	2011-07-11 00:00:00 UTC	2011-07-18 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 18	2011-07-18 00:00:00 UTC	2011-07-25 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 25	2011-07-25 00:00:00 UTC	2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
Aug 1	2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-08-08 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 8	2011-08-08 00:00:00 UTC	2011-08-15 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 15	2011-08-15 00:00:00 UTC	2011-08-22 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 22	2011-08-22 00:00:00 UTC	2011-08-29 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 29	2011-08-29 00:00:00 UTC	2011-09-05 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 5	2011-09-05 00:00:00 UTC	2011-09-12 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 12	2011-09-12 00:00:00 UTC	2011-09-19 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 19	2011-09-19 00:00:00 UTC	2011-09-26 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 26	2011-09-26 00:00:00 UTC	2011-10-03 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 3	2011-10-03 00:00:00 UTC	2011-10-10 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 10	2011-10-10 00:00:00 UTC	2011-10-17 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 17	2011-10-17 00:00:00 UTC	2011-10-24 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 24	2011-10-24 00:00:00 UTC	2011-10-31 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 31	2011-10-31 00:00:00 UTC	2011-11-07 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Nov 7	2011-11-07 00:00:00 UTC	2011-11-14 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Nov 14	2011-11-14 00:00:00 UTC	2011-11-21 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Nov 21	2011-11-21 00:00:00 UTC	2011-11-28 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Nov 28	2011-11-28 00:00:00 UTC	2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Dec 5	2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC	2011-12-12 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Dec 12	2011-12-12 00:00:00 UTC	2011-12-19 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Dec 19	2011-12-19 00:00:00 UTC	2011-12-26 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Dec 26	2011-12-26 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-02 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 2	2012-01-02 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 9	2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-16 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 16	2012-01-16 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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abki·Jan 17, 2012

Here are relevant project pages of the stack: - https://bitbucket.org/abki/hypermove-project (subrepo based repo) - https://bitbucket.org/abki/hypermove (flask application) - https://bitbucket.org/abki/omak (Python to Gremlin/Groovy API) - https://bitbucket.org/abki/graffiti (Graph ORM) - https://github.com/tinkerpop/rexster/wiki/ - http://neo4j.org/ (Graph database) - http://flask.pocoo.org/ (web framework)

In My Demo Social Network App on top of Flask+Python & Rexster+Neo4j

th0ma5·Jul 26, 2011Submission

Rexster Console - GitHub

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espeed·Jul 4, 2011

In addition to the Neo4j REST server, you can also connect to Neo4j through Rexster (http://neo4j-user-list.438527.n3.nabble.com/Neo-Rexster-bein...), an open-source REST server optimized for recommendations and paging (binary bindings are also in the works). Rexster is part of the TinkerPop stack (http://www.tinkerpop.com/). TinkerPop is a developer group founded by Marko Rodriguez and Peter Neubauer, and Peter is also a founder and the COO of Neo4j. Here's the basic Rexster API (https://github.com/tinkerpop/rexster/wiki/Basic-REST-API). In addition, Rexster has tight integration with Gremlin (https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki), the graph query language, which also came out of the TinkerPop group. Gremlin makes traversals easy and allows you to do stuff like calculate PageRank in 2 lines. Here's a short screencast that will give

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you a flavor for what you can do with Gremlin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wpTtEBK4-E_). There is a Python persistence framework in the works called Bulbs that connects to Neo4j through Rexster, and there is also a Web toolkit called Bulbflow (http://bulbflow.com) that is based on Bulbs and Flask. Both are due to be released next week. If you are interested in the emerging graph landscape, I encourage you to join the discussions going on in the Gremlin User group (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gremlin-users) -- it's not just for Gremlin stuff (anything graph-related goes).

In The Neo4j REST API. My notebook.

espeed·Jun 25, 2011

TinkerGraph is close (https://github.com/tinkerpop/blueprints/wiki/TinkerGraph) -- it used to be an in-memory only graph, but you can now persist it. Also look at GraphML (http://graphml.graphdrawing.org) and the full TinkerPop stack (http://www.tinkerpop.com). Gremlin (https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki) is a graph query lanaguage and one of the main discussions groups for general graph database stuff is the Gremlin Users group (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gremlin-users) -- ask your question about the portable library in there -- the group was created by Marko, the guy who wrote TinkerGraph. Here's a 10 min screencast on Gremlin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wpTtEBK4-E Rexster (https://github.com/tinkerpop/rexster/wiki/) is a REST server that has Gremlin built in, and it interfaces with most of the graph databases,

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Neo4j, DEX, OrientDB, etc. There is an open-source Python persistence framework in the works called Bulbs that connects to Neo4j through the Rexster REST server, and there are binary bindings in the works as well. There is also a Python open-source Web development framework for graph databases called Bulbflow that is based on Bulbs and Flask. Both frameworks should be released in the next few weeks.

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