The other answer here is not to offer a SQL dump but to offer a query language that lets the developer interrogate the data in other ways. Most API sets are ba

The other answer here is not to offer a SQL dump but to offer a query language that lets the developer interrogate the data in other ways. Most API sets are based on providing rows back to the user, but what if they want to do COUNTS() or UNION() type calls? This is why Yahoo!'s YQL and Facebook's FQL are so great. The answer is to offer a query language on large data sets.