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TheBlueAlliance stores their data in a database, such as Google Cloud Datastore. However, databases themselves are typically heavily secured, so that bad actors can't intentionally edit the database and corrupt the data (and break the site). So instead, TBA exposes special URLs that return raw data, just like how specific URLs return a webpage. The data format that data is returned in is called JSON - a widely standardized format that many programming languages can understand.