Difference between Gremlin and Tinkerpop

Question

I'm trying to understand what is the difference between Tinkerpop and Gremlin (context: http://tinkerpop.apache.org/).

My assumption is that Gremlin is just the query/traversal language that can use different backends while Tinkerpop is Gremlin client + Gremlin backend (db). The official description says that Tinkerpop is a "graph computing framework", which is a bit too vague for me.

Answer 1

I don't think you can describe a "difference" between Gremlin and Apache TinkerPop. TinkerPop is an open source project and a community that provides a graph computing framework. Core to that framework is the Gremlin graph traversal language and virtual machine. The framework is diagrammed as follows: