[v1sea]

Amazon Neptune supported both Gremlin and Cypher. AWS states in a blog post[0] that Cypher is the pathway to GQL. That aligns with the blog post. Personally I was hoping Gremlin would go farther, but it appears GQL is on track to be the unifying language for property graphs in a few years.

Guess it is time to learn Cypher as increasingly graph db vendors are adopting GQL. Is there an existing GraphDB that implements the GQL spec?

More open source projects should have fun text and drawings in them like the Tinkerpop[1].

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/gql-the-iso-standard-f...

[1] https://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#preface

[erickj]

The tinkerpop writings of Marco Rodriguez are seriously underrated pieces of computer science literature

https://www.datastax.com/blog/tales-tinkerpop

[keithalewis]

Almost as good as having a coloring book and crayons!

[v1sea]

Maybe all these years of staring into the uncaring blackness of my terminal has damaged my brain, but there are some real gems in "Tales from the TinkerPop."

"Grasily had been stationed at vertex v[32] for as long as he could remember. ... Grasily's commanding officer was org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.process.traversal.Traverser@76a36b71"

"The famous mystic traverser Gri Gurobindo (ग्री गुरोबिंदो) once said:

My single step in the graph is composed of the steps of numerous other traversers."

Our computers are at least 10,000 times faster than decades ago. Yet, are we having 10,000 times the fun?