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Blueprints is a collection of interfaces, implementations, ouplementations, and test suites for the property graph data model. Blueprints is analogous to the JDBC, but for graph databases. As such, it provides a common set of interfaces to allow developers to plug-and-play their graph database backend. Moreover, software written atop Blueprints works over all Blueprints-enabled graph databases. Within the TinkerPop software stack, Blueprints serves as the foundational technology for:

• Pipes: A lazy, data flow framework
• Gremlin: A graph traversal language
• Frames: An object-to-graph mapper
• Furnace: A graph algorithms package
• Rexster: A graph server

The documentation herein will provide information regarding the use of Blueprints.¹ Please join the Gremlin users group at http://groups.google.com/group/gremlin-users for all TinkerPop related discussions.

Blueprints JavaDoc: 1.2
Older JavaDocs: 1.1 – 1.0 – 0.9 – 0.8 – 0.7 – 0.6 – 0.5 – 0.4 – 0.3 – 0.2 – 0.1

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<!-- neo4j used in this example -->
<dependency>
   <groupId>com.tinkerpop.blueprints</groupId>
   <artifactId>blueprints-neo4j-graph</artifactId>
   <version>1.2</version>
</dependency>

Non-Maven users can get the raw jars from Apache’s Central Repository.

Graph graph = new Neo4jGraph("/tmp/my_graph");
Vertex a = graph.addVertex(null);
Vertex b = graph.addVertex(null);
a.setProperty("name","marko");
b.setProperty("name","peter");
Edge e = graph.addEdge(null, a, b, "knows");
e.setProperty("since", 2006);
graph.shutdown();

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• Introduction
  • The Benefits of Blueprints
  • Property Graph Model
  • Graph Morphisms
  • Property Graph Model Test Suite
  • Code Examples
• Advanced Graph Handling
  • Graph Transactions
  • Graph Indices
    • Graph Indices Helpers
• Implementations
  • TinkerGraph
  • Neo4j Implementation
    • Neo4j HA Implementation
    • Neo4jBatch Implementation
  • Sail Implementation
  • OrientDB Implementation
  • Dex Implementation
  • InfiniteGraph Implementation
  • Rexster Implementation
  • Datomic Implementation
  • Desired Implementations (help contribute)
• Ouplementations
  • JUNG Ouplementation
  • Sail Ouplementation
• Utilities
  • Import/Export
    • GML Reader and Writer Library
    • GraphML Reader and Writer Library
    • GraphSON Reader and Writer Library
  • Wrappers
    • ReadOnly Implementation
    • Event Implementation
    • Partition Implementation
• Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Release Notes

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¹ Blueprints documentation is up to date with the current Blueprints codebase, not with the latest Blueprints release.