The document is a presentation by Jason Plurad discussing JanusGraph and its role in graph computing alongside Apache TinkerPop. It covers various graph data use cases such as social network analysis and cyber security, and emphasizes JanusGraph's open-source, scalable nature as well as its community-driven governance. The presentation also hints at future directions for JanusGraph, including tooling and community growth initiatives.

1. Jason Plurad • pluradj@us.ibm.com • @pluradj
IBM Open Technology • Apache TinkerPop • JanusGraph
October 18, 2017 • Cognitive & AI Data Infrastructures Meetup • Santa Clara, CA
JanusGraph: Looking Backward
and Reaching Forward

2. @pluradj
Open source • Graph computing
@IBM • @ApacheTinkerPop • @JanusGraph
Food truck chaser • Durham, North Carolina
Jason Plurad

3. Agenda
Graphs
Graph Data Use Cases
Apache TinkerPop
JanusGraph
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"Head of Janus, Vatican museum, Rome"
Loudon dodd, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

4. Graphs
Graphs are not new but they are everywhere

5. 5
Euler's Königsberg Bridge Problem
C
A
B
D
The Euler Archive http://eulerarchive.maa.org/

6. 6
Property Graph
TinkerPop Modern Graph

7. Graph Data Use Cases
All about the relationships

8. 8
Graph Data Use Cases
Social network analysis
Configuration management database
Master data management
Recommendation engines
Knowledge graphs
Internet of things
Cyber security attack analysis

9. 9
Engagement Analytics
https://www.ibm.com/sna

10. 10
Engagement Analytics
https://www.ibm.com/sna

11. 11
Watson for Cyber Security
https://www.ibm.com/security/cognitive/

12. 12

13. Apache TinkerPop
Open source graph computing framework

14. Apache TinkerPop™
§ Open source, vendor-agnostic,
graph computing framework
§ Gremlin graph traversal language
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Apache TinkerPop
Maintainer Apache
Software
Foundation
License Apache
Latest
Release
3.3.0
August 2017
https://tinkerpop.apache.org

15. Graph System Integration
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https://tinkerpop.apache.org

16. Gremlin Traversal Language
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Recursively show all employees and their supervisors
sql2gremlin: Daniel Kuppitz @dkuppitz
http://sql2gremlin.com/

17. 17
Graph Landscape
OLTP
Apache S2Graph
Azure Cosmos DB
BlazeGraph
ChronoGraph
DSE Graph
GRAKN.AI
HGraphDB
IBM Graph
JanusGraph
OrientDB
Neo4j
Sqlg
OLAP
Apache Hadoop
Apache Giraph
Apache Spark
Stardog
TinkerGraph
Titan
Unipop

18. JanusGraph
Open source scalable graph database

19. JanusGraph
§ Established January 2017
– Fork of TitanDB code base
§ Scalable graph database distributed on
multi-machine clusters with pluggable storage
and indexing
§ Vendor-neutral, open community with
open governance
– Founders: Expero, Google, GRAKN.AI,
Hortonworks, IBM
– Members: Amazon, Huawei, Netflix,
Orchestral Developments, Seeq, Uber
– In Production: Celum, Finc, G-Data, Seeq
– 19 committers, 75 contributors
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JanusGraph™
Maintainer Linux
Foundation
License Apache
Latest
Release
0.2.0
Oct 2017
https://janusgraph.org

20. JanusGraph Architecture
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http://docs.janusgraph.org/latest/arch-overview.html

21. 21
https://www.compose.com/janusgraph

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Graph Databases, Gremlin and TinkerPop - a Tutorial
Kelvin Lawrence @gfxman
https://github.com/krlawrence/graph

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JanusGraph Developer Journey
https://github.com/IBM/janusgraph-utils
§ A 360° view of how JanusGraph solves a specific problem
– Includes contextual overviews, architecture diagrams, process flows, demos, blog posts,
and source code
§ Twitter-like application in JanusGraph
– Data generator
– Schema loader
– CSV importer
– Graph model and queries
§ Contributions welcome!

24. JanusGraph: Future Directions?
§ Tooling
– Bulk loading
– Gremlin query editor
– Operations
§ Visualization
§ Storage layout
§ Sematic reasoning
– Ontology, RDF
– Inference rules
§ Grow the community
– Join Us!
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https://janusgraph.org
Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

25. Thank you!