The alternative to direct database access is application programming interface (API)-based access.

Senior Analyst, Servers, Matt Kimball, dives in as Oracle announced the availability of the Oracle Database API for MongoDB. This service enables enterprise organizations to realize the benefits ...

In the modern digital enterprise, data is the new currency, but its true value remains locked away without a master key. That ...

Recently, AWS introduced a new Data API for Aurora Serverless v2 and Aurora provisioned database instances. Currently available for PostgreSQL clusters only, the Data API doesn't require ...

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the open source Data API builder (DAB), which provides REST and GraphQL endpoints for Azure databases, some three years in the making.

Fauna is a distributed document-relational database delivered as an Application Programming Interface (API), over cloud. A cloud API is now a database? Yes. The database itself aims to increase ...

Bulk data is commonly accessed via files & FTP. As the world moves toward APIs to facilitate collaboration, what are the requirements for data APIs? This article describes a meta-data driven ...