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Show HN: Rest – Instant RESTful API on Any SQL Database

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Re: Show HN: Rest – Instant RESTful API on Any SQL Database

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Post by shellfly »

thecosmicfrog wrote: post #7

Curious about the name. Why just "Rest"?

I didn't spend much time on naming, the original idea was inspired by an interesting project PostgREST which is a similar tool bind to Postgres, so I just name it as Rest which could provide RESTFul API for any SQL database.

Re: Show HN: Rest – Instant RESTful API on Any SQL Database

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Post by masukomi »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #9
varunsharma07 wrote: post #6

It would be great if it could support NoSQL databases as well. I use DynamoDb as an example, and I had to write REST APIs myself.

Yes it would be great. But this is kind of like saying people who have a pattern for making quilts should use their techniques to get into the sheet business. On the surface it makes sense, but when you dig into the details it turns out that the way you make quilts and the way you make sheets are so fundamentally different it’s not even worth exploring a common ground. Yes we both make things that go on peoples beds,…

While yes, this makes a ton of sense, I'm voting this up specifically for using a quilting metaphor to explain geekery. ;)
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