Source: thenewstack.io
Why Databases Need APIs
An application isn’t worth much until it’s put into production. Here we’ll discuss what has changed in the software world to elevate the importance of exposing databases as APIs, and we’ll discuss Stargate, the open source project that simplifies how developers can work with these APIs.
Take CQL (Cassandra Query Language), which was developed to offer a query language similar to SQL for communicating with Apache Cassandra.
The modern way that software talks to software is an API; it’s the abstraction layer that hides the complexities of the database.
This enables application developers to focus on writing business services that access data via easy-to-use APIs instead of having to learn the intricacies of a database query language.
Take CQL (Cassandra Query Language), which was developed to offer a query language similar to SQL for communicating with Apache Cassandra.
The modern way that software talks to software is an API; it’s the abstraction layer that hides the complexities of the database.
This enables application developers to focus on writing business services that access data via easy-to-use APIs instead of having to learn the intricacies of a database query language.
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