{"id":95,"date":"2003-02-16T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-16T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/?p=218"},"modified":"2003-02-16T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-16T22:29:00","slug":"rest-and-sql","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2003\/02\/rest-and-sql\/","title":{"rendered":"REST and SQL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jorgen asks\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fawcette.com\/xmlmag\/2003_02\/magazine\/columns\/endtag\/default.asp\">Is REST the SQL\nof the Internet?<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>There are definitely some similarities between REST&#8217;s uniform interface\nand the SQL language, most importantly that they are both coordination languages,\na priori deployed application interfaces that defer component binding (i.e. late\nbinding), which are ideal for deployment on a network between untrusted parties (hence\nthe use of the word &#8220;coordination&#8221;).  But &#8220;Resource oriented&#8221;, a term that Jorgen\ndefines, doesn&#8217;t apply to SQL since its coordination semantics are not specific to\n&#8220;resources&#8221; as defined in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ietf.org\/rfc\/rfc2396.txt\">RFC 2396<\/a>\n(i.e. they&#8217;re not uniform), just as it doesn&#8217;t apply to other coordination\nlanguages like Linda, SMTP, or IMAP.  If I knew more about what he was trying to\nachieve with such a categorization, I might be able to recommend a better name.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jorgen asks Is REST the SQL of the Internet?. There are definitely some similarities between REST&#8217;s uniform interface and the SQL language, most importantly that they are both coordination languages, a priori deployed application interfaces that defer component binding (i.e. late binding), which are ideal for deployment on a network between untrusted parties (hence the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}