The openCypher Initiative

Name: The openCypher Initiative
Uploaded: 2017-03-27T18:25:55-07:00
Duration: 6 min 6 s
Description: The openCypher initiative is establishing Cypher as the industry standard for graph querying. Since the last GraphConnect San Francisco, we’ve been working on various artifacts that enable other vendors to adopt and implement Cypher in their products. Stefan Plantikow, Neo4j Engineer.

March 27, 2017
Length: 6 min

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The openCypher initiative is establishing Cypher as the industry standard for graph querying. Since the last GraphConnect San Francisco, we’ve been working on various artifacts that enable other vendors to adopt and implement Cypher in their products.
Stefan Plantikow, Neo4j Engineer

Cypher & GQL