Re: Groovy as knowledge graph

I use Gremlin and Groovy often so would love to discuss that angle further,
especially adding some more Groovy syntactic sugar to the Gremlin DSL to
make the queries super-clear, like Spock does for BDD/TDD.

Regards,
Matt

On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 9:15 AM Stephen Mallette <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello, With knowledge graphs in mind, Apache TinkerPop has long offered
> gremlin-groovy which contains, among other things, a sugar syntax that
> makes the Gremlin graph query language a bit more Groovy. I've always
> thought it might benefit from experts from the Groovy community who could
> build upon that foundation. I think that some fast impact to making Groovy
> more knowledge graph ready could be some improvements there. Not RDF
> obviously, but property graphs are riding in that same space in many ways.
> Happy to talk about that angle further if there's interest from anyone.
>
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2026 at 4:52 PM Jochen Theodorou <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am recently learning a lot about knowledge graphs and started to
>> wonder if we should make a Groovy module for that.
>>
>> The idea(s):
>> * use Apache Jena as base
>> * provide one or more DSLs to allow semantic mapping from an object
>> structure to an RDF style structure (RDF, RDFS, OWL)
>> * Use SPARQL/another Groovy DSL to query the knowledge base, but also
>> allow building dynamic queries. Not sure that GINQ works for this part,
>> maybe in some cases, but I certainly would want to allow similar features.
>> * provide semantic mapping DSL to map from query result to object
>> structure.
>>
>> but it makes only sense if there is interest in this by more than just
>> myself.
>>
>> Also I am not sure about the time frame for such a project
>>
>> bye Jochen
>>
>