Introduction.md

Ubigia Graph Context Language - Introduction

Accessing databases is though. Especially when they incorporate multi-dimensional data. Similar like other technologies Ubigia tries to make the development experience somewhat lighter. For this it uses a combination of a expressive schema-language which gets converted into source code to simplify client-side data interaction.

The principles that power the GCL can be distinctly split into four separate views. First, we have Result structuring, which ensures that the complex data from the graph storage gets quantified into simple, understandable chunks of data that a application function can process. Secondly, there is the so called method of Graph mapping, with which parts of the graph can be mapped onto the defined result structure. These mappings in essence project Graph Traversal Language (GTL) sequences onto the output fields and structures. Finally, as data access cannot be solely read-only there is the concept of Graph mutation, which makes the CRUD activities of the Ubigia system complete.

1. Ubigia Graph Context Language - Introduction
2. Schema concepts
   • Result Structuring
   • Graph Mapping
   • Graph Traversal
   • Graph Mutation
   • Additional examples
3. Code generation
   • Implementation
4. Usage
5. Additional examples
   • 0. Introduction - Compact - v2
   • 0. Introduction - Elaborate - v2
   • 1. Queries
   • 2. Nodes - Compact - v2
   • 2. Nodes - Elaborate - v2
   • 3. Mutations - Properties
   • 3. Mutations - Properties - v2
   • 3. Mutations - Properties - Compact - v2
   • 3. Mutations - Properties - Elaborate - v2
   • 3. Mutations - Values
   • 3. Mutations - Values - v2
   • 4. Linking
   • 4. Linking - v2
   • 4. Linking - Alternatives
   • 5. Variables
   • 6. Experimental scribbles
   • 8. Typed results
6. Tips 'n tricks

More reasoning about the GCL and its formal specification can be found here.