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Graph Query Language Comparison - Gremlin vs Cypher vs nGQL

In September 2019, Graph Query Language is accepted as a new database query language standard in a vote by the International SQL Standards Committee, the unification of GQL takes time.

Gremlin is a graph traversal language developed by Apache TinkerPop and has been adopted by a lot of graph database solutions.

Cypher is a declarative graph query language that allows expressive and efficient data querying in a property graph.

The table below explains how these languages define nodes and edges: After understanding the common terms in Gremlin, Cypher, and nGQL, let's take a look at the general syntax of these graph query languages.

A node in Cypher is called a vertex in Gremlin and nGQL.