🆚 GraphQL vs. XML

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GraphQL
XML

Type

Standard
Standard

About

GraphQL is a data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing structured data in a platform-independent way.

It uses a hierarchical tree structure with custom-defined tags, supports schemas such as DTD and XML Schema for validation, enables namespaces to avoid naming conflicts, and is widely used in formats and protocols such as RSS, SOAP, and configuration files.

Headquarters

Menlo Park, California, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

graphql.org #462,905
w3.org/XML/ #12,884

Categories

Standards › Rank #20
Standards › Rank #28

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

GraphQL is 3 times more popular than XML.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

GraphQL is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while XML is more popular in Japan, Russia, and Ukraine.
United States
Japan
Germany
United Kingdom
Netherlands
France
Australia
Poland
Sweden
Switzerland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

GraphQL is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while XML is more commonly used on public information sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Health
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#2
#5
#19
#23
#40
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Name
Rank
#940
#1,288
#1,453
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