Dawn huma tliet paradigmi differenti tal-API, kull wieħed ottimizzat għal limitazzjonijiet differenti. M'hemm ebda rebbieħ universali — l-għażla t-tajba tiddependi fuq il-konsumatur, il-forma tad-data, u n-network.
It-tlieta f'daqqa t'għajn
REST GraphQL gRPC
Style resources + HTTP single query graph RPC (call methods)
Transport HTTP/1.1, JSON HTTP, JSON HTTP/2, Protobuf (binary)
Fetching fixed endpoints client picks fields fixed methods
Schema optional (OpenAPI) strong, typed strong, .proto
Browser native, cacheable needs client lib limited (needs proxy)
