GFQL

Protocols HTTP/REST

GFQL runs locally in-process against dataframes (pandas/cuDF) with no server required; gfql_remote()/chain_remote() instead POST a JSON-serialized query to a Graphistry server's REST endpoint and fetch results back.

• Use GFQL, the first fully vectorized dataframe-native graph query language with an open-source GPU runtime, to ask relationship questions that are difficult for tabular tools without requiring a database.

  PyGraphistry: Leverage the power of graphs & GPUs to visualize, analyze, and scale your data · reviewed 2026-08-02

• The GFQL (graph dataframe query language) endpoint is a Graphistry server HTTP endpoint for securely dispatching GFQL queries to run over data already uploaded into your server and getting back the results.

  REST API Documentation: GFQL Endpoint · reviewed 2026-08-02

Released 2023

PyGraphistry's own CHANGELOG first uses the 'GFQL' name in the v0.32.0 entry (2023-12-22); the underlying chain()/hop() traversal API existed earlier but wasn't branded GFQL until then.

• ## [0.32.0 - 2023-12-22] ### Added * GFQL `Chain` AST object * GFQL query serialization - `Chain`, `ASTObject`, and `ASTPredict` implement `ASTSerializable`

  CHANGELOG.md · reviewed 2026-08-02

Language Python

Confirms current value. GFQL is a Python library shipped as part of the PyGraphistry package.

• By being native to accelerated Python data-science technologies such as Apache Arrow, NumPy, NVIDIA RAPIDS, and Graphistry, it can already handle workloads like 100M+ edges in interactive time on a single machine.

  GFQL: The Dataframe-Native Graph Query Language · reviewed 2026-08-02

License BSD-3-Clause

SPDX identifier as classified by GitHub from the repository licence file.

• "spdx_id": "BSD-3-Clause"

  GitHub licence API — graphistry/pygraphistry · reviewed 2026-08-02