What tool should I use for implementing OrientDB on web app?

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I'm learning OrientDB and trying to write a web app to show data in graph. I'm confused about the data visualization tools.

So, I need to visualize data on web, for example, a user can query some data and get a graph.

I know that the OrientDB already provided a graph interface for data management (the one with port 2480). But I'm not sure whether this can be implemented in a web app. Or I need to use tools like D3.js and Alchemy.js.

You can interact with an orientdb database using its drivers : https://orientdb.com/docs/last/Programming-Language-Bindings.html — AlexB, Aug 03 '15 at 21:14
@AlexB Is that only to interact with the database? Can one one of them return a graph? — mlin956, Aug 03 '15 at 21:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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OrientDB is written 100% in Java. You can use the native Java APIs without any driver or adapter.

The graph api combined with Tinkerpop will give you a complete stack of tools to handle graphs. Check out the graph api documentation for more information.

This post tells you how to visualize a graph database. It also gives you a list of generic visualisation tools available.

Like discussed in the post, you need to follow these steps :

create layer on top of your source to let you query at high level
create a front end layer to talk with the level explained above
use the visualization tool you want

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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answered Aug 03 '15 at 21:29

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Thanks, so is this mean that I have to use a third party tool? – mlin956 Aug 03 '15 at 22:05
Yes you have to use another visualisation tool. The orientdb graph editor is not available. – AlexB Aug 03 '15 at 22:08
Speaking of visualization tools, you can export your graph to GraphML and then visualize it with Gephi (https://gephi.github.io/). – Ethan Hohensee Aug 04 '15 at 21:08

What tool should I use for implementing OrientDB on web app?

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