On the Nature of Pipes by Marko Rodriguez.
From the post:
Pipes is a data flow framework developed by TinkerPop. The graph traversal language Gremlin is a Groovy-based domain-specific language for processing Blueprints-enabled graph databases with Pipes. Since the release of Pipes 0.7 on August 1, 2011, much of the functionality in Gremlin has been generalized and made available through Pipes. This has opened up the door for other JVM languages (e.g. JRuby, Jython, Clojure, etc.) to serve as host languages for graph traversal DSLs. In order to promote this direction, this post will explain Pipes from the vantage point of Gremlin.
You may not be a graph database enthusiast after reading Marko’s post but you will increase your understanding of them.
That you are not then a graph database enthusiast will be your own fault. 😉