What is use of OData in SAP?

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.

Who is using OData?

Who uses OData? 7 companies reportedly use OData in their tech stacks, including VillageMD, Thinkwise Platform, and AXIS.

What is OData services in SAP HANA?

OData Service in SAP HANA: An OData service exposes data stored in database tables or views as OData collections for analysis and display by client applications. The client can be web browser, or SAPUI5 application or HTML5 application or any other application which supports OData.

What is OData vs ODBC?

OData has similarity with the ODBC in a sense that here, OData provides the middleware between producers and consumers to communicate data. There is a uniform way to consume data and is independent of the producer much like ODBC. The fact that OData is based on HTTP RESTful services makes it the ODBC for the Web!