Both RESTFUL and GraphQL are the most implemented API technologies globally, here are the major differences between them.
RESTFUL API
- Restful APIs are more chatty.
- Restful needs to have a standardized format.
- Restful can provide a lot of unwanted data, over-fetching data is common in RESTFUL.
- Restful will carry out high-volume transactions due to its over-fetching nature.
- Restful refers to representational state transfer.
- Rest relies on HTTP requests, HTTP verbs, and CRUD ops.
- Rest relies upon resource utilization, the resources are located via URL.
- The client sent a request via the HTTP method.
- RESTFUL API is GET / PUT / POST / DELETE, basic read/write operations are carried out via RESTFUL API infra.
- XML / JSON data will be sent via OBJECT CREATIONS and hence the XML/JSON data can be easily encoded and decoded via backend languages like PHP, JSON is very lightweight, and hence the process of encoding and decoding can be carried out effectively.
- Rest APIs are for only RESTFUL use cases and business cases.
- Rest API WILL USUALLY SEND MULTIPLE REQUESTS TO FETCH THE DATA.
- Rest Api will over-fetch.
- The RESTFUL tech stack is easier to learn.
- RESTFUL APIs are best suited for CRUD ops, based apps E-COMMERCE, / CMS / LMS.
GRAPHQL API :
- GraphQL is less chattable
- Graph QL has a standardized format as well
- Precise aggregation to get the precise data you need.
- Computationally faster
- Target and precise data extraction NO OVER-FETCHING.
- GraphQL is a query language that retrieves data from multi-data sources in a single API call.
- GraphQL schema defines the data that the clients can retrieve through GraphQL service.
- GraphQL will have a query and then the query will be resolved and then data will sent via JSON format.
- GRAPH QL QUERY –> will request the data
- RESOLVER -> Data retriever data schema described in the query.
- GraphQL can fetch all the data in a single request, via leveraging complex schema-based query and mutation mechanism.
- GraphQL will have a higher learning curve as compared to REST.
- GraphQL is well-suited for complex data REQUEST-based applications.
- In GraphQL the resolver fetches the data and aggregates it with the help of GraphQL , a single endpoint can be generated.
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