Show HN: GQL Essentials: a free book on GQL
Hey HN, I'm Dominik Tomaszuk and I want to share my book introducing Graph Query Language (GQL) that is the new ISO standard for query language for property graphs (ISO/IEC 39075). The book covers data model, syntax, queries, and data manipulation. You can find a lot of practical examples there. The book is freely available online at https://gql.fyi/ I hope the book will be useful to developers, researchers, and anyone interested in graph databases.
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Source account: Hey HN, I'm Dominik Tomaszuk and I want to share my book introducing Graph Query Language (GQL) that is the new ISO standard for query language for property graphs (ISO/IEC 39075). The book covers data model, syntax, queries, and data manipulation. You can find a lot of practical examples there. The book is freely available online at https://gql.fyi/ I hope the book will be useful to developers, researchers, and anyone interested in graph databases.
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