REST API Announcement

Today Saffron announced our REST APIs for sense-making and decision support applications using SaffronMemoryBase (SMB).  With these REST APIs, we’ve taken an otherwise difficult subject and made it easy.  Similar to how REST has simplified SOA, Saffron’s REST APIs have simplified analytics.  Notable features of our API are:

1. Powerful, yet simple to use.  For example, to ask what products are connected to the company saffron in the context of announcement, would be as easy as HTTP GET: http://hostname/ws/spaces/default/connections?q=saffron,announcement&c=product
2. Includes both administration and application APIs.
3. Includes both ingestion (write) and query (read) APIs.
4. Queries cover everything from low-level (e.g. returning a sub-matrix of association counts) to high-level (e.g. returning rank-ordered list of association trends) operations.
5. The API is not overwhelming.  There are a small number of APIs that can be applied different ways to solve many problems.
6. Dynamically combine associations together in various ways at query time.  SMB’s virtual attribute system even allows the system to “see” multiple attributes as one, providing a way to fix-up data cleansing errors (e.g. Bill and William are really the same person).
7. Standard JSON/XML input/output formats.
8. SMB’s performance and REST API is ideally suited for today’s new class of analytical applications.

For more information about Saffron REST APIs please visit SaffronSierra, Saffron Technology or view today’s news announcement.

Tags: REST, SaffronSierra, smb

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