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Neo4j would become the standard while being far less used than Gremlin? This is nonsense isn't it?

Neo4j is by far used more than any other graph database out there. Regardless, the standard is not Neo4j specific. It was a collaboration from many companies in the space. They all agree it's a good move.

Well I've no statistics about tinkerpop vs neo4j and other usage, I may be wrong. But I know for sure that far more graph databases supports gremlin than supports opencypher. E.g the latest graph database from Microsoft https://docs.microsoft.com/fr-fr/azure/cosmos-db/graph-intro... Also, Cypher has performance and expressivity issues.

Just looking at https://db-engines.com/en/ranking/graph+dbms clearly shows Neo4j as the most prominent graph db.

I think even Cosmos as number 2 might be misleading here, as Cosmos is a multi-model product and db engines doesn't distinguish between graph and non-graph use in the ranking. (Same for ArangoDB)

> E.g the latest graph database from Microsoft

As a contrast, the recently introduced RedisGraph only supports Cypher.

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