GraphQL

GraphQL is a technology that was internally developed by Facebook for the purpose of data queries. The technology was developed in 2012 in San Francisco, California, United States.

The technology was offered as a public open-source project in 2015. It is meant to provide an alternative to specific architectures with the purpose of increasing productivity and limiting the amounts of data that can be transferred. The technology is an API that works specifically for Facebook, Credit Karma, GitHub, Intuit, PayPal, the New York Times, and other organizations.

GraphQL is a query language for APIs that fulfills queries with existing data. It describes the data within the API and provides developers with tools from there. GraphQL is organized through types and fields rather than endpoints to ensure apps can avoid writing manual parsing codes. The technology allows a developer to learn what data can be requested and highlight issues from your API without an editor.

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2015

GraphQL opened as a public open source project

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Making the enterprise composable

Cliff Saran

September 2, 2021

ComputerWeekly.com

We speak to industry experts about how to develop composable IT that can quickly adapt to business change

Ontotext Platform 3.4 Brings Better Search and Aggregation in Knowledge Graphs

Ontotext

April 15, 2021

www.prnewswire.com:443

/PRNewswire/ -- The added value of Ontotext Platform is the declarative approach for access and management of large-scale knowledge graphs (KG). This allows...

Ontotext Platform 3.3 Streamlines the Building of Knowledge Graph Lenses and GraphQL Interfaces

Ontotext

November 20, 2020

www.prnewswire.com:443

/PRNewswire/ -- Ontotext Platform 3.3 comes with a major new component included - Ontotext Platform Workbench - the web-based administration interface to the...

Hasura launches managed cloud service for its open-source GraphQL API platform

Frederic Lardinois

June 22, 2020

TechCrunch

Hasura is an open-source engine that can connect to PostgreSQL databases and microservices across hybrid- and multi-cloud environments and then automatically build a GraphQL API backend for them, making it easier for developers to then build their own data-driven applications on top of this unified API . For a while now, the San Francisco-based startup [...]

Hasura raises $9.9M Series A to simplify GraphQL for developers

Ron Miller

February 26, 2020

TechCrunch

Hasura, a startup working to solve developer problems around connecting to databases when using the open source GraphQL tool, announced a $9.9 million Series A investment today. Vertex Ventures US led the round with participation from SAP.iO Fund and existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Strive VC. A number of angel investors also participated in [...]