Following user comments (thanks everyone who pitched in with feedback), Xiangrui launched a vote on the proposal on the Spark devs list, 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 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