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by adriancooney 3935 days ago
I'd have to disagree in that it's not a query language, there is definitely ability to query different parts of the data. I'm just unsure where the Graph part of the name came from. I was under the impression it was some play on the words sounding like "graphical" since the appearance of the query language in code is a very close depiction of the actual data returned.
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> I'd have to disagree in that it's not a query language, there is definitely ability to query different parts of the data

For sure. If I could still edit the post, I would probably change it to be something closer to "it's not really a general purpose query language like the name might imply"

It's definitely a query language, but folks start looking for the sorting/filtering/etc and get confused.