A Graph Language To Rule Them All: A Podcast with Neo4j’s Alastair Green on GQL

On this episode of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Neo4j’s Alastair Green and Stefan Plantikow about creating a new standard graph query language (GQL). Woods has written about the rationale behind creating GQL before. The conversation touches on Green’s GQL Manifesto as well as:

2:20 – The need for a graph query language
4:30 – The history of graph query languages
7:30 – The pressure for creating a single standard language
9:30 – How competitors are collaborating on GQL
15:20 – The objections to GQL
18:00 – How companies are coming together to create GQL

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Author: Dan Woods

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