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When I think of GQL I think of GraphQL, but this seems to be an entirely different thing with the same name. Why? Did the ISO GQL come first before GraphQL did
by theogravity 2y ago
When I think of GQL I think of GraphQL, but this seems to be an entirely different thing with the same name.
Why? Did the ISO GQL come first before GraphQL did?
- mdavidn 2y agoThis language actually reminds me more of SPARQL, but without RDF’s URI prefixes reminiscent of XML namespaces. These queries search a graph for patterns spanning many nodes and edges. GraphQL is more of an RPC protocol that always recurses down from the same entry node. I agree the names are too similar.
- simicd 2y agoAgree names are too close, searching GQL on Google returns results related to GraphQL as well. GraphQL is older, it was introduced in 2015 [1] while the work on the ISO GQL standard officially started in 2019 [2]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphQL https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphQL [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_Query_Language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_Query_Language
- sakesun 2y agoIt should be named SGQL -- Structured Graph Query Language to be more resemble SQL.
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- junon 2y agoDespite the name, GraphQL does not actually query graphs (at least, not like GQL does).