GraphQL has nothing to do with graph queries though. GraphQL is called that because it was created as a query language for Facebook's "social graph". It actual

GraphQL has nothing to do with graph queries though. GraphQL is called that because it was created as a query language for Facebook's "social graph". It actually doesn't provide any graph operations or recursion (i.e. you explicitly tell it how many levels deep you want to go). You can provide a GraphQL interface on top of any backend or database, though.