GQL: A New ISO Standard for Querying Graph Databases
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The International Standard for Organization (ISO) has published an international standard for querying graphs, called the Graph Query Language (ISO/IEC 39075:2024).
It is the first database query language that ISO had published since 1987 when it ratified SQL in that year. The standards body spent over five years sorting the details.
“There’s nothing like international formal standard, a sibling to SQL that comes out from the same organization as SQL, to speak volumes for the mainstream value” of GQL, said Philip Rathle, chief technology officer at Neo4j, in an interview with TNS.
The release “marks a new chapter in the history of query languages, revolutionizing the way we interact with and harness the power of interconnected data,” said Tony Holland, communications lead, ISO/ IEC Joint Technical Committee 1/AG 1, in a statement. “GQL represents a significant step forward in data querying and manipulation, offering a unified and expressive language for navigating complex graph structures.”
