In Codd, we trust In the field of Computer Science and Engineering, few things come close to the durability and ubiquity of SQL. As web or mobile developers, there’s usually a RESTful API backend that serves JSON responses over HTTP. More often than not, there’s a SQL DB used in these REST API services. However if we look closely, we find that the business logic is in Java/Kotlin/Python layer, whereas the DB is usually just a data store.