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User Guide

Welcome to the Gaffer user guide. The pages under this section are intended to help a user of Gaffer understand the core concepts and quickly get started querying a currently deployed graph.

The Basics

If you are brand new to Gaffer and graph databases in general, the Gaffer basics pages contain useful information to give an overview and foundation.

Available APIs

Gaffer comes with a few different APIs, the pages in the user guide give an introduction to these APIs and how to use them to query a graph. Also included is an introduction to some of the core languages used for the APIs.

Graph Querying

To query a graph Gaffer uses a custom querying format based around isolated functions called Operations. This user guide gives an introduction to this format and provides examples to help users formulate their own.


Last update: October 5, 2023
Created: September 13, 2023