What is the difference between OData REST and SOAP?

Is OData SOAP or REST?

ODATA is derivative of REST or built on top of it. - It is approved from International Organization for Standardization (ISO) & International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for release.

What is the difference between REST and OData?

REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer which is a resource based architectural style. Resource based means that data and functionalities are considered as resources. OData is a web based protocol that defines a set of best practices for building and consuming RESTful web services.

What is difference between REST API and SOAP?

An API is designed to expose certain aspects of an application's business logic on a server, and SOAP uses a service interface to do this while REST uses URIs. While SOAP APIs are designed after the functions that the API exposes, REST APIs are designed after the data.

What is REST API in OData?

OData RESTful APIs are easy to consume. The OData metadata, a machine-readable description of the data model of the APIs, enables the creation of powerful generic client proxies and tools. Some of them can help you interact with OData even without knowing anything about the protocol.