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So, is there a draft spec yet? I can't find anything.

Also, the name is of course justified, but it will be a mess to search for due to (Facebook) GraphQL.

Seriously, people should not choose names which are already taken in the same general area of technology. Even if it "makes sense". The whole point of naming things is to refer to things more or less unambiguously.

> Also, the name is of course justified, but it will be a mess to search for due to (Facebook) GraphQL.

Google's GQL [0], which is older than either, doesn't help the searchability, either.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/reference/gql_refere...

The GQL project just started. Since it is going to be an ISO standard, the specification is only available for members while under development but may be purchased from ISO once final (Same as for SQL, though you can find copies on the internet).

GQL will be a declarative language in the spirit of existing property graph query languages like Cypher, so that gives you an idea. I'm sure as the project proceeds, various artefacts (software or otherwise) will become freely available.

If you want to dig deeper, gqlstandards.org links to some documents that are copyright Neo4j and have been submitted to the standards process.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16CUhVI1PQ4hBlhD80_Ys...

"Purchased"? Really? Hmmm.

However, ISO does have a store that prominently features "best selling standards": https://www.iso.org/store.html

that's nothing new. draft versions are usually released for free, but the final ISO standards have always required fees for access and the copyright for the documents belongs to ISO. a standard for the C programming language, for example, will run about $200. average developers don't usually need access to the standard, as they will be working with an implementation of the standard anyway (which should be providing its own documentation).

Many standards are also available via the national standards body of your locale (e.g. ANSI), often at a cheaper rate.

Also google has a query language for some of its Cloud data products with that name https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/reference/gql_refere...

Or even a single code sample? It sounds like they've decided simply that "the international standard will be called 'GQL'" but they have no idea what the language will be (or they're keeping it a secret, which would be even more troubling).

https://s3.amazonaws.com/artifacts.opencypher.org/M14/railro...

See http://www.opencypher.org/resources for more.

Is GQL a new name for Cypher?

Sort of. ISO GQL is largely about taking the best ideas from Cypher (and other graph query languages) into a language overseen by an international standards body backed by multiple companies and implementations.

Can we have a search uniqueness tag, like 'GQL19'?

We have search terms, meta data keywords, urls, but no short optimized for humans search uniqueness tag?

Seems like there should be some standard or convention at least, given it could be opt-in. It would help any site or content that referenced the tag and anything that didn't would still work as well as usual.

Just say ISO GQL

Is GQL already used elsewhere? As long as nobody calls it graphql we should be fine, right? Nobody says structured ql or even structured query language, its just sql.

I read the entire article and came away mistakenly thinking this was the same thing as GraphQL.

.gql extensions are already associated with GraphQL in some IDEs.

> Is GQL already used elsewhere?

GQL (for “Google Query Language”) is the SQL-like query language for Google Cloud Datastore, and has been around since it was just the App Engine datastore.

Yes, it's used by a lot of GraphQl libraries:

    graphql-python/gql: A GraphQL client in Python

    graphql-python/gql-next: A Python GraphQL Client

    grooviter/gql: Groovy GraphQL library
 
    99designs/gqlgen: go generate based graphql server

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