What type of support does Oracle Autonomous Database provide for modern application development?

Oracle Autonomous Database is designed to support modern application development by providing RESTful APIs and JSON support. This capability is significant as it aligns with contemporary development practices, enabling developers to interact with the database through web services and facilitate the integration with various web and mobile applications.

RESTful APIs allow applications to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations over HTTP, which is particularly useful in creating scalable and stateless service architectures. JSON support further enhances this by enabling developers to work with data in a lightweight and easily understandable format. This is especially relevant in applications that exchange data with web services or require data to be processed in a NoSQL-like fashion.

This modern approach to database interaction not only simplifies communication between the client and server but also reflects the shifting standards of application development towards using lightweight protocols and data formats.