This is my preferred approach--a fluent, composable query builder API that uses pipes. When I do data analysis with R, this is what I use--same concept: https:

This is my preferred approach--a fluent, composable query builder API that uses pipes. When I do data analysis with R, this is what I use--same concept: https://dbplyr.tidyverse.org/ https://dbplyr.tidyverse.org/ The somewhat tricky part can be converting the tabular result set into a graph of objects, but I think it's better to handle this in your application code as needed, rather than delegate it to a library.