# Feedback requested on proposal for Spark Cypher in Spark 3.0

**URL:** https://community.neo4j.com/t/feedback-requested-on-proposal-for-spark-cypher-in-spark-3-0/4431
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** spark, cypher
**Created:** [January 16, 2019, 12:48pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/feedback-requested-on-proposal-for-spark-cypher-in-spark-3-0/4431 "2019-01-16T12:48:13Z")
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### Author: ![alastair.green](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/alastair.green/32/623_2.png) [@alastair.green](https://community.neo4j.com/u/alastair.green)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 10:31am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/feedback-requested-on-proposal-for-spark-cypher-in-spark-3-0/4431/4 "2019-02-13T10:31:52Z")

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Following user comments (thanks everyone who pitched in with feedback), Xiangrui launched a [vote on the proposal on the Spark devs list](http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/VOTE-SPARK-25994-SPIP-DataFrame-based-Property-Graphs-Cypher-Queries-and-Algorithms-tt26255.html#none), and it closed yesterday with the following result:

> Hi all,
> 
> The vote passed with the following +1s (\* = binding) and no 0s/-1s:
> 
> - Denny Lee
> - Jules Damji
> - Xiao Li\*
> - Dongjoon Hyun
> - Mingjie Tang
> - Yanbo Liang\*
> - Marco Gaido
> - Joseph Bradley\*
> - Xiangrui Meng\*
> 
> Please watch SPARK-25994 and join future discussions there. Thanks!
> 
> Best,  
> Xiangrui

The binding votes are Apache Spark PMC members. This is a great outcome, reflecting a ton of work from various contributors and backers.

There's going to be a discussion about how Cypher can feed into the proposed international standard GQL at the forthcoming [Fifth openCypher Implementers' Meeting](https://www.opencypher.org/event/2019/03/06/ocim5/) in Berlin in early March.

This news about Spark Cypher adds to the importance of making the long-term transition from Cypher to GQL as easy as possible. (There are also reports of one or two additional industrial implementations of Cypher in the works.) The ever-growing interest in a standard graph query language shows how graph data management is beginning to go mainstream, in my view.

Alastair

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