Rest based web services

Question

REST is concerned with specifying how a remote client can interface with a server, not how the server goes about its job of actually satisfying the clients' requests. Does that mean that if I make a Rest based web service using WCF I can still go about normal database querys in the same fashion without worrying its not rest based? For instance select, insert, update, delete etc?

Answer 1

Internals of a web service is of no concern to the consumer of the service. As long as your public interface sticks to REST principles, internal details are all up to you.

Answer 2

REST doesn't have to do anything with your database queries. It is how client communicates with the server.