I also believe that creating a CRUD RESTful API directly on top of your database schema is a very bad idea because of the potential impedance mismatch. Normall

I also believe that creating a CRUD RESTful API directly on top of your database schema is a very bad idea because of the potential impedance mismatch. Normally, a REST API is formed of Endpoints (Objects), so this article should explain the problem fairly well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_impedance_mismatch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_impedance_mis...