http://alexbarnett.net/blog/archive/tags/Data/webservices/Google/default.aspxTags: Data, webservices, GoogleenCommunityServer 2007 (Build: 20416.853)http://alexbarnett.net/blog/archive/2007/07/13/restpectful-comparison-of-microsoft-s-astoria-and-google-base-data-apis.aspxFri, 13 Jul 2007 06:36:00 GMT0a97a1d1-9921-457b-8bd7-ce5530d7bd45:40242alexbarnett1http://alexbarnett.net/blog/commentapi.aspx?PostID=40242http://alexbarnett.net/blog/archive/2007/07/13/restpectful-comparison-of-microsoft-s-astoria-and-google-base-data-apis.aspx#comments<P mce_keep="true">Dare has written up RESTpectful comparison of the programming&nbsp;models&nbsp;of&nbsp;<A class="" href="http://astoria.mslivelabs.com/" mce_href="http://astoria.mslivelabs.com/">Microsoft's Astoria</A> and <A class="" href="http://code.google.com/apis/base/" mce_href="http://code.google.com/apis/base/">Google Base Data API</A>&nbsp;for&nbsp;querying relational data over the web (RESTful data services).</P> <P mce_keep="true">Both these APIs&nbsp;also happen to&nbsp;support operations for changing the data - inserting, updating, and deleting - Google's details <A class="" href="http://code.google.com/apis/base/starting-out.html#insupdel" mce_href="http://code.google.com/apis/base/starting-out.html#insupdel">here</A> and Astoria's in this&nbsp;<A class="" href="http://astoria.mslivelabs.com/UsingMicrosoftCodenameAstoria.doc" mce_href="http://astoria.mslivelabs.com/UsingMicrosoftCodenameAstoria.doc">.doc</A>, where in addition Astoria allows associations between&nbsp;entities&nbsp;to be&nbsp;created and deleted). These aren't mentioned in Dare's analysis (I'm sure he knows of the&nbsp;ability to <EM>change </EM>the data via the APIs, not just query), however <A class="" href="http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2007/07/13/GoogleBaseDataAPIVsAstoriaTwoApproachesToSQLlikeQueriesInARESTfulProtocol.aspx" mce_href="http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2007/07/13/GoogleBaseDataAPIVsAstoriaTwoApproachesToSQLlikeQueriesInARESTfulProtocol.aspx">the article</A> is worth a read nonetheless.</P><img src="http://alexbarnett.net/blog/aggbug.aspx?PostID=40242" width="1" height="1">APIsAstoriaDataGoogleMicrosoftRESTSaaSSOAWeb 2.0webservices