What Is A Document API?

A Document API represents your data as JSON documents organized in collections, similar to document databases such as MongoDB. Interact with data stored in collections using familiar REST/HTTP methods (GET/PUT/POST/DELETE) to work directly with your JSON documents, without having to learn a new database query language. To use the API, you create a namespace for your application, which can contain one or more named collections, which in turn can contain multiple documents. The documents can have similar or different structures - that’s entirely up to your application and how you want to represent the data!

Why Use The Document API With Cassandra?

Stargate is an open source data gateway deployed between client applications and a database. This open-source API framework gives fullstack developers native JSON support which you can then combine with the reliability and scalability of Cassandra. The Documents API builds on the Stargate REST API. Stargate acts as a gateway, handling the details of how your documents are stored in Cassandra. For Javascript developers, the Stargate JavaScript SDK is a great way to get started. 

How To Get The Stargate Document API

Stargate is now available in DataStax Astra. If you have an Astra database, the Stargate GraphQL API is already enabled. If you have access to your own self-hosted Cassandra cluster, see the Stargate documentation for a quickstart guide for installing and using the Document API. Stargate is also distributed with K8ssandra.io for Kubernetes users and included in DataStax Enterprise.

Check out DataStax’s BattleStax demo application, a fullstack app that uses Stargate’s Document API, Astra, and Netlify.