What is meant by OData services?

What is an OData service?

The OData Service: Is a service layer on the OData Model. It exposes the endpoint allowing a client access to data using the Odata Client Library and OData Protocol. It also converts data source formats like tables into standard formats that clients can use.

What is OData and how it works?

Similar to ODBC and JDBC, OData gives you a single way of accessing various data sources. Consumers of OData master one API and use it to consume multiple data sources. As a producer, OData relieves you from spending your resources to defining and maintaining data access and discovery API.

What is OData service in API?

An application programming interface (API) allows you to access data, for example, monitoring data. The OData API is implemented as a REST API and the technical protocol is Open Data Protocol (OData). This means that you can use standard HTTP methods (for example, the GET method) to call the API.

What is the difference between OData and API?

The AtomPub protocol is one of the best examples of REST API design. So, in a sense you are right - the OData is just another REST API and each OData implementation is a REST-ful web service. The difference is that OData is a specific protocol; REST is architecture style and design pattern.