title: why use rest api in what scenario is REST better? NoSQL
body: <p>There are now REST apis for Mongodb and redis.</p>
  
  <p>I can connect to those databases with my language's driver.</p>
  
  <p>Or I can use the REST api. I understand that the REST api is easier to grok, and easier to convert from language to language. But there's less features.</p>
  
  <p>But is there any reason to use the rest api if I'm already doing fine with the language driver?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>