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The Benefits of Blueprints
okram edited this page Mar 17, 2011
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Blueprints is a generic graph Java API that binds to various graph backeds (i.e. frameworks and databases). Below is a list of reasons for using Blueprints.
- Blueprints makes it relatively easy to swap in and out different graph backends. In this way, its possible to avoid vendor lock-in.
- Any software built for Blueprints will work with any Blueprints-enabled graph backend.
- Blueprints comes with a large library of utilities to make it easy to manipulate a graph.
- Blueprints can turn any graph databases into a RDF store (see Sail Ouplementation).
- Blueprints can turn any RDF store into a graph database (see Sail Implementation).
- Blueprints can turn any graph into a JUNG graph (see JUNG Ouplementation).
- Blueprints has support for GraphML reading and writing (see GraphML Reader and Writer Library).
- Its open source and free to use under a liberal BSD license.