Anything like tinkerpop for php? - php

Question

I am just getting started with graph databases. I would like to talk to them in a PHP application. In particular, I am looking at OrientDB, mainly because of its licensing benefits and features over neo4j.
What is the recommended way to interact with OrientDB within PHP? Is there a generalized framework like tinkerpop for the PHP world?
I would like to query my graphs using mainly gremlin and a bit of OrientDB's extended SQL (only if necessary).
I know there are 2 php connectors: Orient and OrientDB-PHP, but have not tried them yet. Has anyone had any experiences with them? What are the pros and cons? I would of course prefer something like tinkerpop for PHP if it exists, but if it doesn't a library geared towards OrientDB is fine too.

Answer 1

I'm Alex, I actually wrote the biggest part of the codebase for Orient (the php library).
In PHP, currently, there is no thing like tinkerpop but I think you should be able to kickstart with Orient. Using it its extremely simple:
<?php
namespace Congow\Orient;
use Congow\Orient\Binding\HttpBinding;
use Congow\Orient\Binding\BindingParameters;
require __DIR__.'/../autoload.php';
$parameters = BindingParameters::create('http://admin:admin#127.0.0.1:2480/friends');
$binding = new HttpBinding($parameters);
$response = $binding->query('select from friends where any() traverse(0,1) ( #rid = #5:3 ) and #rid <> #5:3');
$friends = $response->getResult();
foreach ($friends as $friend) {
echo $friend->name, "\n";
}
Instead of writing the query from scratch you can also use the query builder:
$query = new Select(array('myClass'));
$query->orderBy("name ASC", false);
echo $query->getRaw() // SELECT FROM myClass ORDER BY name ASC
You could have a look at the tests of the library, or at the mini-samples in the example directory.
We are slowly keep going on with the development, so you find a few resources here: http://odino.org/blog/categories/orientdb/
Cheers,

Answer 2

I know It's been a while but I wanted to point out that you can use the Tinkerpop stack in PHP via available drivers.
These will allow you a certain level of abstraction over the underlying database you choose -- thus allowing you to switch DBs when needed (Neo4j, OrientDB, Titan, etc.).
TinkerPop 3
You can use Gremlin server (new name for rexster) via the php driver available:
gremlin-php check this tutorial
Tinkerpop 2 (no longer maintained)
You can use the Rexster server from the stack via the php drivers available:
rexpro-php check this article
Doolittle
rexpro-php-driver (PHP ext.)