The ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 has approved the Graph Query Language (GQL) project proposal, which aims to develop a new language for querying graph databases. The GQL project draws inspiration from existing languages such as Cypher, Oracle's PGQL, and SQL, with the goal of creating a composable graph query language that can "compose over graphs" and enable users to insert and maintain data in addition to querying it. Ten countries have voted in favor of the proposal, while five abstained due to lack of expertise, and only Japan voted against, citing existing languages already covering the ground. The project is expected to build on work in openCypher Morpheus and the inspiration of G-CORE from the Linked Data Benchmark Council to create a conceptual equal of SQL.