Cypher developed database. GQL becomes an international standard. Whether Cypher automatically switches to GQL. Whether database needs to be redeveloped with GQL

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Cypher developed database. GQL becomes an international standard. Whether Cypher automatically switches to GQL. Whether database needs to be redeveloped with GQL

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Hi,

GQL is the ISO standard for property graph query languages. It is still a work in progress, but the expectation is to have a public standard by the end of 2023/the beginning of 2024.

Cypher is one of the main sources of inspiration for GQL, and Neo4j is a leading contributor to the GQL standard, so at this point, the two languages are very close, but not identical. Neo4j is currently working to make Cypher the best GQL-compliant graph query language. As a matter of fact, some of the recently introduced Cypher features are already an implementation of the GQL draft standard. There will be no need for redevelopment, users will see additional features appearing in Cypher, as they are used to, but some of them will be derived from the GQL standard.

Hope this helps,
Valerio