Web Api Database Systems For Rapid Web Application Development

Web APIs are offered in many Web sites for Ajax and mashup but they have been developed independently since no reusable database component has been specifically created for Web applications In this paper we propose WAPDB a distributed database management system for the rapid development of Web applications WAPDB is designed on Atom a set of Web API standards and provides several of the key fea lures required for Web applications including efficient access control an easy extension mechanism and search and statistics capabilities By introducing WAPDB developers are freed from the need to Implement these features as well as Web API processing In addition its design totally follows the REST architectural style which gives uniformity and scalability to applications We develop a proof of concept application with WAPDB and find that it offers great cost effectiveness with no significant impact on performance in our experiments the development cost is reduced to less than half with the overhead (in use) of response times of just a few msec