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Ciaran Martin
Ciaran Martin

Reputation: 608

Why the "graph" in GraphQL?

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't know why GraphQL has graph in the title.

I'm guessing it is something to do with Graph Theory and graph and can see some sort of connection but it would be great if someone can explain it in simple terms.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1266

Answers (1)

Aydin Gerek
Aydin Gerek

Reputation: 292

GraphQL's logo is definately a graph theoretical graph. I think it's because the data it's meant to fetch is graph theoretical in nature. It was developed by Facebook for their needs, and FB is has a large social network (aka a graph). If you look at the description here, they mention it works well with "graph-structured data stores", and that they think of data in terms of "a graph of objects".

Upvotes: 3

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