GraphQL is a query language mostly used to streamline access to REST APIs. Now, a new breed of GraphQL implementations wants to build an abstraction layer for any database on top of GraphQL, and it ...

Anyone who's ever tried to build distributed applications (dApps) on the (Ethereum) blockchain would concur: Although blockchains are conceptually quite close to databases, querying databases feels ...

Among the many ways of implementing a GraphQL engine, only one approach offers the same performance, scalability, and ACID guarantees as the underlying database. When we talk about advantages of ...

One of the strongest trends in data application development in recent years has been the rise of the GraphQL query language. GraphQL is finding adoption by database vendors and enterprises as a way to ...

Using GraphQL to enable a data services layer is an emerging best practice at a number of large organizations. Users from Major League Baseball, Netflix, Expedia, Zillow and PayPal detailed their ...

GraphQL gives clients who call your Web services the ability to specify what properties of your data objects they want. Here are two ways to let those clients also specify which data objects they want ...

Learn how the open standard for querying data is different from REST and Swagger, and how you can use it to build more flexible and responsive APIs. When most software developers think of web APIs, we ...

GraphQL lets you create data access services without writing controllers. Instead of writing procedural code, you declare schemas describing what queries you'll accept and what you're willing to ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. A new product will establish the graph-based industry standard for secure, orchestrated access to APIs ...