Why OData is used in SAP?

What is the use of OData in SAP?

OData is a Web protocol for querying and updating data, applying and building on Web technologies such as HTTP, Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub), and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to provide access to information from a variety of applications.

What is OData explain the advantages of OData in SAP?

OData is a open protocol started by Microsoft is based on Rest Services so we can get data base on URL. It suppport various protocol like http,atom,pub and also support JSON format. No need to create proxy classes which we used to do it in web service. You will able to write your own custom methods.

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 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.