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# Quickstart as Library

Currently, Cayley supports being used as a Go library for other projects. To use it in such a way, here's a quick example:

```go
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"

    "github.com/cayleygraph/cayley"
    "github.com/cayleygraph/quad"
)

func main() {
    // Create a brand new graph
    store, err := cayley.NewMemoryGraph()
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalln(err)
    }

    store.AddQuad(quad.Make("phrase of the day", "is of course", "Hello World!", nil))

    // Now we create the path, to get to our data
    p := cayley.StartPath(store, quad.String("phrase of the day")).Out(quad.String("is of course"))

    // Now we iterate over results. Arguments:
    // 1. Optional context used for cancellation.
    // 2. Flag to optimize query before execution.
    // 3. Quad store, but we can omit it because we have already built path with it.
    err = p.Iterate(nil).EachValue(nil, func(value quad.Value){
        nativeValue := quad.NativeOf(value) // this converts RDF values to normal Go types
        fmt.Println(nativeValue)
    })
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalln(err)
    }
}
```

To use other backends, you can empty-import them, eg

```go
import _ "github.com/cayleygraph/cayley/graph/kv/bolt"
```

And use them with a call like

```go
import "github.com/cayleygraph/cayley/graph"

func open() {
  // Initialize the database
  graph.InitQuadStore("bolt", path, nil)

  // Open and use the database
  cayley.NewGraph("bolt", path, nil)
}
```

More runnable examples are available in [examples](https://github.com/cayleygraph/cayley/tree/87c9c341848b59924a054ebc2dd0f2bf8c57c6a9/examples/README.md) folder.


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