GraphQL vs. REST API: What’s the difference?
IBM Big Data Hub
MARCH 29, 2024
GraphQL GraphQL is a query language and API runtime that Facebook developed internally in 2012 before it became open source in 2015. Each schema specifies the types of data the user can query or modify, and the relationships between the types. GraphQL is defined by API schema written in the GraphQL schema definition language.
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