The International Standard for Organization (ISO) has a published an international standard for querying graphs, called the Graph Query Language (ISO/IEC 39075:2024).

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GQL is a new ISO standard for querying graph databases. It brings stability and assurance to the technology, allows visualization of complex interconnected systems, and assists in understanding language models. The standard includes graph-only and scalar data types, operations and functions for scalar types, a transaction and security model, graph pattern matching, and graph types.

GQL: A New ISO Standard for Querying Graph Databases