We need to look for GUIs
The-Don-Himself opened this issue · comments
This list is great but lacks a list of Graphical User Interfaces. Of course there is Gephi, but I find it hard to find anything a bit more modern and lightweight.
I know the folks at Compose created their own, https://www.compose.com/articles/announcing-the-data-browser-for-janusgraph/ and they have had internal discussion on whether to open-source it.
Anyway, created this issue for us to find some GUIs to add to this awesome list.
Hi Don, good shout. I'll be more than happy to add it to the list unless you prefer to be a contributor. You can add it at the bottom of the sub categories. Please let me know if you want to do it.
Regarding other tools, I scout for any new 'awesome' projects that deserve to be added here every other month. I may do that in few days and will look specifically for visualisation tools. Please let me know if you spotted any thing.
Hi @mohataher , it's great you agree that GUIs should be added to awesome list, the challenge is getting some. I am definitely up to being a contributor. We can start with Gephi which seems to be the most complete, there are others but they come without connectors to a graph database so developers would have to write one up.
I like this one: https://github.com/strathausen/dracula
Sigma.js is also great: https://github.com/jacomyal/sigma.js
I think gun deserves an honourable mention but I am not quite sure where
gun.js: https://github.com/amark/gun
Thoughts?
I had a look at the three and I'm under the impression they don't support Tinkerpop APIs. Am I wrong?
You and right,they don't natively support Tinkerpop APIs, but then again I haven't really come across any GUI that does, other than Compose's JanusGraph Data Browser. Gephi, requires a plugin but when used it seems native enough.
The libraries I mentioned can support Tinkerpop but you'd have to do all the bindings and querying manually. I believe dracula could be behind Compose's JanusGraph database browser, because of the striking similarities (I don't have in-depth knowledge though). While I also believe sigma.js is behind a specific GUI by Dylan Millikin https://github.com/PommeVerte/gc-cytoscape-plugin. So they all support Tinkerpop but developers must write the glue to stick it. There maybe a GUI by DataStax since they acquired Titan and converted it into DataStax Enterprise Graph, but I think it will be tied to DataStax studio, haven't tried it yet so can't comment. Sadly, these are the few GUI options I've ever found.
Gun.js was just a very awesome library I found that I though would be great to share, haven't seen a robust Tinkerpop integration with it yet.
On further investigation, the 2nd library uses cytoscape.js https://github.com/cytoscape/cytoscape.js
The only one that supports Gremlin is @PommeVerte one. Unfortunately the last commit was 2 years ago. That is not an awesome library any more. Have you come across any other libraries?