Last week I attended my third face-to-face meeting for WG3, a subgroup of ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC1), and the group that has developed, maintained, and extended the standards for the SQL database language for some four decades. This gathering was exciting because it...
We’re thrilled to see this big step forward for the Graph Query Language (GQL) team, as the key international standards body (ISO/IEC JTC 1) has approved the 4-year project to set a graph query language standard. Though still in draft and incomplete form, GQL is...
Last month I wrote about the ISO meeting in Brisbane, working towards a standard query language for property graphs. I recently returned from Berlin, where the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) held a special workshop to build bridges between the semantic graph and property graph communities. The 3-day...
Last month I had an epiphany, 10,000 miles from home. It wasn't until the second day in Brisbane that it struck me…I was sitting on the ISO working group committee that had defined and continues to maintain the specifications for SQL, the language that is synonymous...
Since the introduction of the TigerGraph Developer Edition in June 2018, the GSQL language has generated a lot of interest and a lot of valuable feedback. In general, the feedback has been positive for GSQL’s ease of use, high performance, and high expressive power. Here...
The time is ripe for an international standard graph query language. Industry vendors including Neo4j have called this out, and we at TigerGraph wholeheartedly agree. As graphs continue to see widespread adoption, we have certainly reached a tipping point for our industry. Still, it is...
