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Mastering Backendless Database
Learn the ins and outs of Backendless Database, our robust and scalable visual relational DB, with this free video course from Backendless CEO Mark Piller. New videos released weekly, so leave your feedback to shape future parts!

Mastering Backendless Database

Learn the ins and outs of Backendless Database, our robust and scalable visual relational DB, with this free video course from Backendless CEO Mark Piller. New videos released weekly, so leave your feedback to shape future parts!

Bubble Just Made Data Storage Unaffordable. Now What?

Today, Bubble announced a major change in their pricing structure. Intended to make their pricing “more predictable and easier to understand”, the reality was clear to their community: Bubble is simply not scalable anymore.

How To Add JSON Objects In Backendless Database

Backendless Database now supports the JSON data type, a significant innovation that allows us to support both structured and unstructured data.

How to Use SQL-Based Search for Data Objects in Backendless Console

As soon as you have data in persistent storage, the question of searching would be one of the first to come up. Indeed, how can you query the backend for data? We considered multiple options and elected to use the most popular one – SQL.

How to Create Data Tables, Columns and Relations by Importing CSV Files

Backendless can create tables when you store object hierarchies from a client application. Also, we described how to manually create data tables using Backendless Console.

How to Use Backendless REST Console to Fetch Your Data

One of the hidden gems packed with features is Backendless REST Console. It is a part of Backendless Console and is located in its own tab on the Data screen. The Console does exactly what it sounds like – lets you run REST requests against your data tables.

How to Create/Save New Data Objects Using REST Console

The REST Console is a part of the Backendless Console. It is a versatile interface that lets you perform a complete CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) set of operations on your data stored in Backendless using the REST interface.

How to Declare Relations Between Tables (Classes) Using Backendless Console

In another post, we describe how to add columns/properties to a Backendless table/class using Backendless Console. The types of properties reviewed in that post were all primitive: string, numbers, dates or boolean values. In addition to these data types, Backendless also supports relationships between objects stored in its persistent storage.

How to Create Relationships Between Objects Using Backendless Console

Previously we showed how to declare relationships between tables. Once a relationship is in place, specific objects stored in the tables may be linked with each other.