Directus is an open-source platform designed to offer flexible data interaction through both REST and GraphQL APIs, accommodating various business and project requirements. While REST is a long-established architectural specification for interfaces, GraphQL, created by Facebook in 2012, offers a more efficient way to query data by allowing a single request to retrieve nested data from a database. Directus ensures behavior parity between its REST and GraphQL APIs, enabling users to obtain multiple data points with one query, thus eliminating the inefficiencies of making multiple requests typically required by REST. The platform dynamically generates REST endpoints and a GraphQL schema based on the connected database's schema, ensuring identical structures for both APIs. This dynamic generation involves predictable resource-oriented URLs, standard HTTP status codes, and JSON for input and output. The flexibility of Directus allows users to switch freely between REST and GraphQL, depending on their needs. Additionally, Directus plans to introduce WebSockets for real-time data updates, available in both APIs, reinforcing its commitment to providing an adaptable and unopinionated data management experience.