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IMPORTANT - TinkerPop is now a part of the Apache Software Foundation and "TinkerPop 3.x":http://tinkerpop.apache.org/ 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 This project is TinkerPop 2.x and is no longer active.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":http://blueprints.tinkerpop.com graph through HTTP/REST and a binary protocol called "RexPro":https://github.com/tinkerpop/rexster/wiki/RexPro. "Extensions":https://github.com/tinkerpop/rexster/wiki/Extensions support standard traversal goals such as search, score, rank, and, in concert, recommendation. Rexster makes extensive use of "Blueprints":http://blueprints.tinkerpop.com, "Pipes":http://pipes.tinkerpop.com, and "Gremlin":http://gremlin.tinkerpop.com. In this way its possible to run Rexster over various graph systems including:

• "TinkerGraph":http://wiki.github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/tinkergraph in-memory graph
• "Neo4j":http://neo4j.org/ graph database
• "OrientDB":http://www.orientechnologies.com/ graph database
• "Sparksee":http://www.sparsity-technologies.com/#sparksee graph database
• "Titan":http://thinkaurelius.github.com/titan/ graph database
• "Sesame 2.0":http://www.openrdf.org compliant RDF stores
• Many "third-party":https://github.com/tinkerpop/blueprints/wiki Blueprints implementations

Rexster provides a browser-based user interface known as "The Dog House":https://github.com/tinkerpop/rexster/wiki/The-Dog-House. This interface allows for viewing vertices, edges, and their related properties. A web-based console for executing "Gremlin":http://gremlin.tinkerpop.com scripts is provided along with a "Rexster Console":https://github.com/tinkerpop/rexster/wiki/Rexster-Console which allows remote evaluation of scripts within the Rexster Server context.

The documentation for Rexster can be found at this "location":http://rexster.tinkerpop.com. Finally, please visit "TinkerPop":http://tinkerpop.com for other software products.