Thus far, the main focus of the X DevAPI has been on using it with the MySQL Document Store. However, as explained in Chapter 6, it also supports “good old” SQL tables. In fact, there are two interfaces to work with SQL tables. The create-read-update-delete (CRUD) actions that were the focus of Chapter 7 also exist for SQL tables and provide a NoSQL API. Also, the X DevAPI can be used to execute arbitrary SQL statements.
This chapter will first give an overview of the workflow when using SQL tables and then go through how the X DevAPI can use SQL tables ...