Introduction to JanusGraph Database

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JanusGraph is an open source, distributed property graph optimized scalable to billions of vertices and edges and deployed at the Linux Foundation after forking Titan in 2016. IBM uses it for engagement analytics and airline routing, and a managed Compose offering hosts it. The stack implements Gremlin/TinkerPop for traversals and exposes pluggable storage and indexing backends (Cassandra, HBase, Elasticsearch, FoundationDB, etc.), provides drivers (.NET, Python nearing release, JavaScript) and Docker images, and currently lacks standardized performance benchmarks.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:56Agenda
3. 1:27Property Graph Model
4. 2:05Vertex
5. 2:32Edge
6. 3:34Properties
7. 4:45Engagement Analytics
8. 7:06Personal Dashboard
9. 8:41Airline Routing
10. 10:19Cloud Databases
11. 12:22Graph Framework
12. 14:32Gremlin Traversals
13. 15:36Traversal Example
14. 19:52Graph Database
15. 22:26Built with JanusGraph
16. 26:20Key Benefits
17. 27:21Open Source at IBM
18. 28:31Project Directions

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