ODataWhat is OData?
It is an ISO/IEC approved, OASIS standard that defines a set of best practices for building and consuming RESTful APIs. It helps you focus on your business logic while building RESTful APIs without having to worry about the various approaches to define request and response headers, status codes, HTTP methods, URL conventions, media types, payload formats, query options, etc.
OData is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
Key Features
OData RESTful APIs are easy to consumeISO/IEC approved
OData Pros & Cons
Pros of OData
- ✓Patterns for paging, sorting, filtering
- ✓ISO Standard
- ✓Query Language
- ✓No overfetching, no underfetching
- ✓RESTful
- ✓Ask for what you need, get exactly that
- ✓Batch requests
- ✓Bulk requests ("array upsert")
- ✓Get many resources in a single request
- ✓Self-documenting
Cons of OData
- ✗Overwhelming, no "baby steps" documentation
OData Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to OData?
GraphQL
GraphQL is a data query language and runtime designed and used at Facebook to request and deliver data to mobile and web apps since 2012.
SQL
SQL is designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS).
Prisma
Prisma is an open-source database toolkit. It replaces traditional ORMs and makes database access easy with an auto-generated query builder for TypeScript & Node.js.
Oracle PL/SQL
It is a powerful, yet straightforward database programming language. It is easy to both write and read, and comes packed with lots of out-of-the-box optimizations and security features.
