Company
Date Published
Author
Emil Eifrem, Philip Rathle & Alastair Green
Word count
484
Language
English
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None

Summary

The graph community has expressed a desire for a common query language that would benefit developers with transferable expertise, provide portable queries, and reduce vendor lock-in. A unified graph query language, GQL (Graph Query Language), is proposed to fuse the best of three property graph languages: Cypher, PGQL, and G-CORE. The new language aims to be an industry standard, working with SQL but not being confined by it, offering better choices for developers, data engineers, and data scientists alike. The Neo4j team is advocating for collaboration among vendors and users to define and standardize one language, which has a common heritage of ASCII art patterns to match, merge, and create graph models. The community is invited to vote on whether to unite to create a standard Graph Query Language (GQL).