# Introducing ShopifyQL: Our New Commerce Data Querying Language

DevFeed: [Introducing ShopifyQL: Our New Commerce Data Querying Language](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-shopifyql-our-new-commerce-data-querying-language-1588.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/shopify-commerce-data-querying-language-shopifyql>)

Author: Ranko Cupovic

Published: 2022-06-22T13:00:01Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Query (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/query.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Data visualization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-visualization.md>), [Optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/optimization.md>)

Tags: [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-visualization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-visualization.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify introduces ShopifyQL, an accessible commerce-focused querying language designed to help Shopify Plus merchants explore business data without a data science or coding background. It provides easy-to-learn syntax, one-step visualization, period comparisons, and commerce-specific date functions.

## Source excerpt

At Shopify, we recognize the positive impact data-informed decisions have on the growth of a business. But we also recognize that data exploration is gated to those without a data science or coding background. To make it easier for our merchants to inform their decisions with data, we built an accessible, commerce-focused querying language. We call it ShopifyQL.