Integrating titandb with sigma.js

Question

I am new to titandb. As per the titandb documentation, there is predefined graph (GraphOfTheGods). I want to visualize the graph using sigma.js or any other. For this purpose, I want to integrate titandb with sigma.js.

Please help me to integrate titandb with any graph visualization software.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You don't say if you are building an application that visualizes graphs or you just want to do some analysis of Titan using a graph visualization technique. If you are building an application and are then using a library like sigma.js (or other viz libs), then you'd need to build some server application around Titan to utilize sigma.js. The "how" you do that is a massively broad question.

On the other hand, if you are doing some standalone visualization for analytic purposes, you have a few specific options. You can use a graph visualization toolkit like Gephi or Cytoscape for this purpose. Open up your Titan graph with the Gremlin Console and then export the graph to a format accepted by those tools - typically GraphML:

final Graph graph = TinkerFactory.createModern();
graph.io(IoCore.graphml()).writeGraph("tinkerpop-modern.xml");

The above example uses TinkerGraph but would work equally well with a Titan Graph instance. You could then import that file into the tool.

You could also use the new TinkerPop 3.x Gephi Plugin for the Gremlin Console which allows you some interactive capabilities and a nicer workflow than export/import. That is the preferred method in 3.x.