ReST makes sense for public APIs. It's a highly inefficient approach for a database that is only accessed over internal links by your application. And no, you

ReST makes sense for public APIs. It's a highly inefficient approach for a database that is only accessed over internal links by your application. And no, you don't want to let the general public connect directly to your database. CouchApp is the most idiotic idea I've read about in a while.