Graph Studio: Interactive, Self-Service User Interface

Graph Studio is the main user interface (UI) for creating, querying, analyzing, and visualizing graphs.

It includes notebooks and developer APIs where you can execute property graph queries using PGQL, RDF graph queries using SPARQL, and over 60 built-in graph algorithms. It also offers dozens of visualizations including native graph visualization.

The overall layout comprises of a left navigation panel that provides quick access to major actions, and the right side that displays content appropriate for the selected option on the left side menu.

The following figure shows the Graph Studio UI.

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The navigation menu consists of:

• Overview
• Graphs
• Notebooks
• Templates
• Jobs

Overview

The Overview menu link directs you to the main or landing page. It consists of two sections:

The right section is a welcome panel which shows the following:

• A link to a video which describes how Graph Studio makes it easy to create and work with graphs in Autonomous Database.
• A Learn More section with links to documentation, blogs, and tutorials.

The middle section shows either of the following:

• A collapsible panel with links to Graphs, Notebooks, and Jobs pages for a first-time user as shown in the preceding figure.
• Cards listing existing graphs, notebooks, and jobs for a returning user with existing content as shown in the following screen .

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Graphs

The Graphs menu link directs you to the Graphs page which contains the following two tabs:

• Property Graph
• RDF Graph

All existing graphs corresponding to the selected graph type are listed on the Graphs page. Clicking on any graph displays the graph details in the bottom panel.

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Depending on the graph, you can perform any of the following actions on this page:

• Property Graph
  • Create a new property graph.
  • Query an existing property graph using PGQL.
  • You can also use any of the following supported options in the graph details section:
    • Explore the Summary of the graph and optionally load the graph into memory, share the graph with other users, rename or delete the graph.
    • Preview the graph.
    • View the graph Properties.
    • View the graph Source.
• RDF Graph
  • Create a new RDF graph.
  • Query an existing RDF graph using SPARQL.
  • Explore the RDF graph properties (RDF statements) in the graph details section.

Query Playground

Clicking </> Query on the Graphs page will direct you to the Query Playground page. It is a notepad for entering and executing simple PGQL or SPARQL queries to validate a newly created property graph or an RDF graph respectively. It is not meant for testing complex queries or for use in a production environment.

Queries submitted in the playground are executed directly against the graph stored in Autonomous Database as shown:

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This means they do not require Graph Studio to be attached to the internal compute environment or initially have the graph loaded into memory in case of property graphs.

In case of RDF graphs, the Query Playground interface allows you to select the RDF graph against which the SPARQL query is to be executed as shown:

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Notebooks

The Notebooks menu link takes you to the Notebooks page that lists existing notebooks.

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Templates

The Templates menu link directs you to the Templates page. This page consists of a left pane that lists all the existing templates. They are custom built templates with predefined graph visualization and notebook settings. Clicking on an existing template displays the custom data settings on the right pane. These template formats are applied to a notebook.

The page also contains the following buttons:

• Create: To build a new template
• Update: To update a template
• Delete: To delete a template
• Share: To share a template
• Import: To import a template
• Export: To export a template

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Jobs

The Jobs menu link directs you to the Jobs page that lists previous and current jobs.

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