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by lkjaero 3816 days ago
The database stores the data, the rest API handles the business logic. Django has multiple plugins for providing a REST API, such as Tastypie. http://tastypieapi.org/ With this, django is the API. A rest API is good for when you want to share data between multiple clients (eg a website and mobile apps) and want to have more complicated business logic than the database can provide by itself.