IMPORTANT – TinkerPop is now a part of the Apache Software Foundation and TinkerPop 3.x is the latest incarnation of The TinkerPop. This project is TinkerPop 2.x and is no longer active.

Rexster is a graph server that exposes any Blueprints graph through REST and a binary protocol called RexPro. The HTTP web service provides standard low-level GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE methods, a flexible extensions model which allows plug-in like development for external services (such as adhoc graph queries through Gremlin), server-side “stored procedures” written in Gremlin, and a browser-based interface called The Dog House. Rexster Console makes it possible to do remote script evaluation against configured graphs inside of a Rexster Server.¹

Rexster Kibbles is a collection of various Rexster server extensions provided by TinkerPop.

Please join the Gremlin users group at http://groups.google.com/group/gremlin-users for all TinkerPop related discussions.

Access graphs via the Basic REST API:

http://localhost:8182/graphs/tinkergraph/vertices/1

{
  "version":"*.*",
  "results": {
    "_type":"vertex",
    "_id":"1",
    "name":"marko",
    "age":29 
  },
  "queryTime":0.12351 
}

or through RexPro:

RexsterClient client = RexsterClientFactory.open("localhost", "tinkergraph");
List<Map<String, Object>> results = client.execute("g.v(1).map");

Rexster JavaDoc: 2.6.0 – 2.5.0 – 2.4.0 – 2.3.0 – 2.2.0 – 2.1.0 – 2.0.0
Rexster WikiDoc: 2.6.0 – 2.5.0 – 2.4.0 – 2.3.0 – 2.2.0 – 2.1.0 – 2.0.0

• Introduction
  • The Benefits of Rexster
  • Getting Started
  • Rexster Configuration
    • Specific Graph Configurations
  • Command Line
  • The Dog House
  • Rexster Console
  • Basic REST API (Cheat Sheet)
  • Monitoring
• HTTP REST
  • Mapping a URI to JSON
  • Property Data Types
  • Rexster MIME Types
  • Rexster Security
  • Using RexsterGraph (distributed through Blueprints)
  • Extensions
    • Creating an Extension
    • Extensions and Gremlin
    • Deploying an Extension
    • Extension Naming
    • Extension Points
    • Extension Configuration
    • Extension Parameters
    • Extension Response
    • Extension Documentation
    • Extension Annotations (Cheat Sheet)
  • TinkerPop Extensions
    • Gremlin Extension
    • Rexster Kibbles
• RexPro
  • Connecting via RexPro
  • RexPro Messages
• Third-Party Related Projects
  • HTTP/REST Clients
    • Bulbs (python)
    • Mogwai (python – formerly known as Thunderdome)
    • GraphAlchemy (python)
    • rexster-ruby (ruby)
    • grex (javascript)
  • RexPro Clients
    • rexpro-python (python)
    • rexpro-client (.NET/C#)
    • rexpro-fsharp (.NET/F#)
    • rexpro-php (PHP)
    • Dolittle (PHP)
    • rexpro-ruby (ruby)
    • RexConnect (TCP)
    • gprexpro (Go)
  • Other
    • Giraph Connector
• Conclusion
  • Troubleshooting
  • Acknowledgments
  • Release Notes

<dependency>
   <groupId>com.tinkerpop.rexster</groupId>
   <artifactId>rexster-core</artifactId>
   <version>2.6.0</version>
</dependency>

Non-Maven users can get the raw release jars from Apache’s Central Repository. Snapshots can be obtained from Sonatype (see Maven Repositories for more information).

¹ Rexster documentation is up to date with the current Rexster codebase, not with the latest Rexster release.