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 ## Gradoop: Distributed Graph Analytics on Hadoop
 
-[Gradoop](http://www.gradoop.com) is an open source (ALv2) research framework for scalable 
+Gradoop is an open source (ALv2) research framework for scalable 
 graph analytics built on top of [Apache Flink](http://flink.apache.org/). It offers a graph data model which 
 extends the widespread [property graph model](https://github.com/tinkerpop/blueprints/wiki/Property-Graph-Model) 
 by the concept of logical graphs and further provides operators that can be applied