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Neo4j has this thing on ignoring other graph databases. One example is their O'Reily book Graph databases covering you guessed it one graph database. I know it's good for marketing purposes. I like the way Cypher works, though not sure whether I would like to see Neo4j controlling how graph query language evolves.

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So, it's to a large extent to address that last concern that we are doing this, right. We are moving the ownership of the language out into its own project, and inviting others to design the future of graph query languages together with us. We think that, while that means we loose a lot of control of our golden goose, so to speak, it is exactly the right choice if we want, as we do, for cypher to be the go to standard for querying graphs across the industry.

Thanks for all the work you guys are doing. I have used neo4j on a few projects, one in node and the other in python, and have really loved using cypher. The projects end up so simple with so many fewer lines of code it's amazing.

At least it _sounds like_ they've been talking to other graph DB vendors about adopting (Open)Cypher. Who knows if it's really going to happen, but it makes me slightly more inclined to invest time in Neo4J's Cypher when I finally start playing with GraphDBs.

In all article they mention only one another graph db which is not publicly available :) if you call this talking to other DB vendors :)

To add to your list (disclosure: I am the author) is http://gunDB.io/ which is an Open Source graph database written in javascript. Although we currently have not implemented any query languages (we'll be adding SQL soon), so you can only do graph traversal as of now.

I'm curious to see what would be the popular vote of what query language the industry wants to standardize (I definitely hope not GraphQL, I'm personally think RQL and LINQ are interesting). Rather than some company attempting to standardize it, I want to see the users vote. What would you choose?

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