ArangoDBConfigurationBuilder builder = new ArangoDBConfigurationBuilder();
builder.graph("modern")
    .withVertexCollection("software")
    .withVertexCollection("person")
    .withEdgeCollection("knows")
    .withEdgeCollection("created")
    .configureEdge("knows", "person", "person")
    .configureEdge("created", "person", "software");
// use the default database (and user:password) or configure a different database
// builder.arangoHosts("172.168.1.10:4456")
//     .arangoUser("stripe")
//     .arangoPassword("gizmo")
// create a ArangoDB graph
BaseConfiguration conf = builder.build();
Graph graph = GraphFactory.open(conf);
GraphTraversalSource gts = new GraphTraversalSource(graph);
// Clone to avoid setup time
GraphTraversalSource g = gts.clone();
// Add vertices
Vertex v1 = g.addV("person").property(T.id, "1").property("name", "marko")
    .property("age", 29).next();
g = gts.clone();
Vertex v2 = g.addV("software").property(T.id, "3").property("name", "lop")
    .property("lang", "java").next();
// Add edges
g = gts.clone();
Edge e1 = g.addE("created").from(v1).to(v2).property(T.id, "9")
    .property("weight", 0.4).next();
// Graph traversal 
// Find "marko" in the graph
g = gts.clone();
Vertex rv = g.V().has("name","marko").next();
assert v1 == rv;
// Walk along the "created" edges to "software" vertices
g = gts.clone();
Edge re = g.V().has("name","marko").outE("created").next();
assert re == e1;
g = gts.clone();
rv = g.V().has("name","marko").outE("created").inV().next();
// If the edge is irrelevant
// rv = g.V().has("name","marko").out("created").next();
assert rv == v2;
// Select the "name" property of the "software" vertices
g = gts.clone();
String name = (String) g.V().has("name","marko").out("created").values("name").next();
assert name.equals("lop");
// close the graph and the traversal source
gts.close();
graph.close();