On the World Wide Web

• Interactions between the webserver and the database must be standardized

• APIs

  • Application Program Interface
  • Standardized way for any application program, including webservers, to send calls to DBMSs, get responses
  • High-performance
  • Different DBMSs have different APIs
  • Most webservers support only some DBMS APIs

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