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Getting Started with Apache TinkerPop and Gremlin

by Charles Nurse

This course introduces database developers to the TinkerPop Graph Database and to the Gremlin traversal API.

What you'll learn

Graph databases in general, and Apache TinkerPop enabled databases in particular, are being increasingly used to model highly connected systems. In this course, Getting Started with Apache TinkerPop and Gremlin, you'll gain the ability to build apps for these highly connected systems. First, you'll explore the importance of graph databases, how to build graph models, and how to install the Gremlin console and TinkerGraph. Next, you'll discover how to query and update a TinkerPop database using the Gremlin traversal language. Finally, you'll learn how to use the skills learned to work with a cloud based TinkerPop enabled database – Azure Cosmos DB. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of Apache TinkerPop and the Gremlin traversal language needed to build apps for highly connected systems.

About the author

Charles Nurse is a Senior .NET developer with over 20 years of application development experience on the Microsoft stack. He is an alumnus of the Microsoft MVP program having been a member for over 10 years. His current passions are Blazor development, Graph Databases and Genealogy.

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