OrientDB Implementation

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<dependency>
   <groupId>com.tinkerpop.blueprints</groupId>
   <artifactId>blueprints-orient-graph</artifactId>
   <version>??</version>
</dependency>

Graph graph = new OrientGraph("local:/tmp/orient");

Orient Technologies are the developers of OrientDB. OrientDB is pure to the property graph model.

OrientDB introduction – NoSQL

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There is no impedance mismatch between Blueprints and OrientDB. However, there are a few peculiarities in OrientDB that make it not completely faithful to the property graph model. These are itemized below.

1. No user defined element identifiers: OrientDB is the gatekeeper and creator of vertex and edge identifiers. Thus, when creating a new vertex or edge, the provided object identifier is ignored.