Creating a graph in the Gremlin console

DataStax Studio creates a graph automatically for each connection that is created. In Gremlin console, a graph must be manually created. In addition to creating the graph, a graph traversal must be aliased to the graph in order to run queries.

Start the Gremlin console.

Create a simple graph with default settings to hold the data.

gremlin> system.graph('food').create()

$ ==>null

This command is not available if a graph traversal is aliased with the :remote config alias g some_graph.g command. In order to access the system command, reset the alias with :remote config alias reset

Create a graph with non-default replication, systemReplication, and configuration settings:

system.graph('food2').

  replication("{'class' : 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'dc1' : 3 }").
  systemReplication("{'class' : 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'dc1' : 3 }").
  option("graph.schema_mode").set("Production").
  option("graph.allow_scan").set("false").
  option("graph.default_property_key_cardinality").set("multiple").
  option("graph.tx_groups.*.write_consistency").set("QUORUM").create()

For graphs created in multi-datacenter clusters, the DSE database settings must use NetworkTopologyStrategy and a replication factor greater than one. If the graph is created with a replication setting of SimpleStrategy and a replication factor of 1, the graph data will be stored across the multiple datacenters rather than localizing the data in the graph datacenter.

+ The default replication strategy for a multi-datacenter graph is NetworkTopologyStrategy, whereas for a single datacenter, the replication strategy will default to SimpleStrategy. The number of nodes will determine the default replication factor:

Nodes per datacenter and default replication factor
number of nodes per datacenter	graph_name replication factor	graph_name_system replication factor
1-3	number of nodes per datacenter	number of nodes per datacenter
greater than 3	3	5

On the remote Gremlin Server, set the alias for the graph traversal g to the graph traversal specified in food. To run traversals, the graph traversal must be aliased to a graph.
```
gremlin> :remote config alias g food.g
```
```
$ ==>g=food.g
```
A list of all graphs can be retrieved with the following command:
```
gremlin> system.graphs()
```
```
$ ==> food
$ ==> test
```

Creating a graph in the Gremlin console

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