Hi Aman,

Without saying that I understand everything of the JanusGraph behaviour that you describe, I can add the following:

• when accessing the graph via JanusGraph server (what you call the gremlin API) every request is a transaction already (unless you use sessions). So, using buildTransaction for defining g in JanusGraph Server is counterintuitive and possibly enters untested territory.
• Apache TinkerPop has the so-called ReadOnlyStrategy to realize the behaviour you want. Can you try that instead?

Best wishes,    Marc