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OData vs REST

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Overview

REST
REST
Stacks239
Followers198
Votes0
OData
OData
Stacks61
Followers139
Votes35

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Detailed Comparison

REST
REST
OData
OData

An architectural style for developing web services. A distributed system framework that uses Web protocols and technologies.

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.

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OData RESTful APIs are easy to consume; ISO/IEC approved
Statistics
Stacks
239
Stacks
61
Followers
198
Followers
139
Votes
0
Votes
35
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 4
    Popularity
Pros
  • 7
    Patterns for paging, sorting, filtering
  • 5
    ISO Standard
  • 4
    Query Language
  • 3
    No overfetching, no underfetching
  • 3
    RESTful
Cons
  • 1
    Overwhelming, no "baby steps" documentation
Integrations
No integrations available
Python
Python
C++
C++
JavaScript
JavaScript
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code
.NET
.NET
Java
Java

What are some alternatives to REST, OData?

GraphQL

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.

gRPC

gRPC

gRPC is a modern open source high performance RPC framework that can run in any environment. It can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking...

Prisma

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.

PostGraphile

PostGraphile

Execute one command (or mount one Node.js middleware) and get an instant high-performance GraphQL API for your PostgreSQL database

Oracle PL/SQL

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.

SQL

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).

Graphene

Graphene

Graphene is a Python library for building GraphQL schemas/types fast and easily.

JSON API

JSON API

It is most widely used data format for data interchange on the web. This data interchange can happen between two computers applications at different geographical locations or running within same hardware machine.

graphql.js

graphql.js

Lightest GraphQL client with intelligent features. You can download graphql.js directly, or you can use Bower or NPM.

JsonAPI

JsonAPI

t is a format that works with HTTP. A main goal of the specification is to optimize HTTP requests both in terms of the number of requests and the size of data packages exchanged between clients and servers.

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