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API Magic: Building Data Services with Apache Cassandra
All applications depend on data, yet application developers don’t like to think about databases. What if we could shift the balance, providing a data service in developer-friendly idioms, rather than expecting developers to learn database-specific idioms?
In some sense, data modeling limits a database; it takes unformed, and thus general-purpose, clay and molds it into something purpose-built for a particular application idiom.
Essentially, we will have built a document database that you interact with through a JSON API out of Cassandra, Stargate and a reasonably efficient Cassandra data model.
That thermodynamic principle is why data APIs are the new database revolution, and why Cassandra is the database that will power this revolution.
In some sense, data modeling limits a database; it takes unformed, and thus general-purpose, clay and molds it into something purpose-built for a particular application idiom.
Essentially, we will have built a document database that you interact with through a JSON API out of Cassandra, Stargate and a reasonably efficient Cassandra data model.
That thermodynamic principle is why data APIs are the new database revolution, and why Cassandra is the database that will power this revolution.
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