[mbroecheler]

Take a look at Gremlin 3 - it now supports both declarative and imperative queries. In fact, you can even mix and match the two.

You want to match a complex pattern? Use declarative Gremlin so the query optimizer can figure out the best execution strategy for you. You have a highly custom path traversal? Use imperative Gremlin which gives you full control over the execution and provides you with everything you'd expect from a pipeline language. You have both? Combine them in a single traversal.

While Gremlin2 was an imperative query language, Gremlin 3 is a new type of query language that aims to combine the best of both worlds.