I need to learn Gremlin etc. and possibly use it within a public facing production-ready system I'm working on. As any release of my system is, at a minimum, 6 months away (say end Q1 2015), should I switch directly to the new, still pre-release, Tinkerpop 3 implementation, now?
I'd rather not mis-use development time writing code against Tinkerpop 2 if it's all going to change within a year or so, however, I'm also wary of using untested code, for production purposes.
Any feedback or ideas would be very helpful ;-)
OK, I went over to the Tinkerpop Google Group, as suggested by @stephen-mallette, and Marko Rodriguez, one of the Tinkerpop lead developers, had this to say regarding moving to Tinkerpop 3 development:
(As of 16th Sept 2014)
Here are my thoughts.
- TinkerPop3 M2 is days away so start coding to that when it comes out.
- If you are using Neo4j, you will be a in great position for TinkerPop3 usage -- as TinkerPop3 GA is then maybe 1 month away and
Neo4j is a reference implementation of TP3.
- If you are using any other backend, you will most likely see their TP3 implementations coming by years end. ?? (up to the vendors)
- If you are using Titan, then Titan 0.9 will come out within 1-2 months with TP3 support.
In short, avoid using TP2 if you can.
HTH, Marko.
http://markorodriguez.com
