The development of a new ISO/IEC standard language called Graph Query Language (GQL) marks a significant milestone in the database industry. GQL was first introduced as Cypher, which evolved into openCypher and finally transitioned into the draft ISO standard GQL in 2019. The latest major revision of SQL, SQL:2023, has been published, introducing new features for property graph queries over data stored in tables and more support for JSON data types. This represents a pivotal development for advancing data analytics and management in the era of big data, GenAI, and beyond. GQL addresses the need for sophisticated queries that reflect the increasingly complex and connected nature of data in the real world, providing more intuitive and powerful ways to visualize and interrogate data relationships while storing and processing data more efficiently.