JTC 1/SC 32/WG3 Database Languages

September 2024 Baku, Azerbaijan

At a recent JTC 1 meeting, Jörn Bartels (an SC 32/WG3 participant from Germany) opened a conversation with Firuza Bahri from the Azerbaijan Standardization Institute. This conversation resulted in SC 32/WG 3 Database Languages meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan during the week of September 23, 2024.

Multiple individuals from the Azerbaijan standards institute warmly welcomed WG 3 and participated in the meetings.

During the Baku meeting, WG 3 continued developing the next revision of the database language standards, ISO/IEC 9075 SQL and 39075 GQL. Major technical topics included:

• Support of AI and Retrieval Augmented Generation in databases, in particular the addition of vector types and vector operations for the next edition of SQL.
• Enhancements and corrections for the GQL standard

Kamala Mammadzada from the Azerbaijani standards institute organization arranged for a two-hour outreach workshop on WG 3 standards and invited representatives of the Azerbaijan Information and Communication Technologies Industry Association and the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport. In total people from 10 different organizations participated.

WG 3 participants presented the Database Language Standards Workshop. The workshop topics were:

• SC 32/WG 3 Standards context & process, recent efforts, and current directions
• Property Graphs in GQL
• Property Graphs in SQL

Next meeting is on November 18^th, 2024 (Virtual)

Photo courtesy of Ulkar Huseynova