Host Language Embedding

Classic database query languages, like SQL, were conceived as being fundamentally different from the programming languages that would ultimately use them in a production setting. For this reason, classical databases require the developer to code both in their native programming language as well as in the database's respective query language. An argument can be made that the difference between "query languages" and "programming languages" are not as great as we are taught to believe. Gremlin unifies this divide because traversals can be written in any programming language that supports function composition and nesting (which every major programming language supports). In this way, the user's Gremlin traversals are written along side their application code and benefit from the advantages afforded by the host language and its tooling (e.g. type checking, syntax highlighting, dot completion, etc.). Various Gremlin language variants exist including: Gremlin-Java, Gremlin-Groovy, Gremlin-Python, Gremlin-Scala, etc.