The international committee (ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32 WG3 Database Languages) that is responsible for the database language standards SQL and GQL is pretty good at wri

The international committee (ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32 WG3 Database Languages) that is responsible for the database language standards SQL and GQL is pretty good at writing standards and not as good at taking about the work in progress. SC32 WG3 is developing two related standards to support property graphs: 1. SQL/PGQ (ISO/IEC JTC1 9075 part 16) -- This adds language to create property graph views on top of existing SQL tables and write property graph queries in a GRAPH_TABLE function in an SQL FROM statement. 2. GQL (ISO/IEC JTC1 39075 Database Language GQL) -- This is a full declarative property graph database language to create, maintain, and query graphs. This includes support for both descriptive and prescriptive schemas. The Graph Pattern Matching language is identical between the two standards. For more details about GPM, see https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06217 https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06217 The ISO process has a defines series of milestones. I will spare you the details at the moment. SQL/PGQ will start a Draft International Standard (DIS) ballot in July 2022 and so will be a published standard next year - 2023. GQL will finish a Committee Draft (CD) ballot this month (February 2022) and should be ready for a DIS ballot in early 2023. However because GPM is shared between SQL/PGQ and GQL, the GQL Graph Pattern Matching will be stable when SQL/PGQ goes to DIS ballot. For a little more detail on the GQL standards process and content, take a look at the talks from the LDBC TUC meeting August 2021: https://ldbcouncil.org/event/fourteenth-tuc-meeting/ https://ldbcouncil.org/event/fourteenth-tuc-meeting/