OData drivers & connectors
for data integration
Connect to OData Services through easy-to-use bi-directional data drivers. Easily integrate OData data with BI, reporting, analytics, ETL tools, and custom solutions.
Do more with OData data
OData data integration
Access OData data in all of the systems you use every day, including BI & analytics tools, databases, data warehouses, and custom apps. Customers commonly use CData's OData connectivity to:
- Provide a logical data layer of abstraction that shields users from the complexity of data access and integration.
- Get blazing-fast access to data for BI, reporting, and data integration with highly optimized read/write performance.
- Securely explore tables, columns, keys, data, and full meta-data based on user identity.
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Trusted by OData Users Worldwide
Office Depot Leverages CData to 'Lift and Shift' Critical Data and Enable Analytics Integration
“CData allows us to take that Snowflake data and put it in a cube with that sub-two second response time our end-users are looking for.”
— Daniel Ligas
Office Depot IT Architect
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Belden Supports Growing Marketing Requests by Centralizing Data Access in the Cloud
“CData connects our Tableau to Google Analytics, Google Ads, and Salesforce. Now we’ve also got connectors set up for Pardot, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. And I have all these things all in one place with no upkeep on my end.”
— Paul Summitt
Belden D&A IT Supervisor
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Logi Analytics Brings Real-Time Data to Analytics Dashboards for SaaS
“As we expand into and serve new industries and markets, having broad-spectrum data connectivity within our products will improve our ability to support additional customers and data reporting scenarios”
— Jaimi Panini
VP of Product & Development for Logi Analytics
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The CData difference
Our standards-based approach to connectivity streamlines data access and insulates usrs from the complexities of integrating OData data.
Unparalleled OData Connectivity
Get full access to your OData data wherever you need it. CData is the undisputed leader in OData connectivity providing the most comprehensive access to live OData data anywhere. Thousands of customers and hundreds of leading data ISVs rely on our connectivity to make the most of their data.
Fastest time to value
Reduce reducing development cycles and accelerating the overall time to market. Our pre-built, optimized connectors eliminate the need for complex custom development, allowing for fast, secure access to Workday data.
Unbeatable price-performance
By standardizing and streamlining how systems interact with OData our products reduce development costs and timelines, slash architectural complexity.
Blazing data access
Our OData connectivity is fast — really fast. In fact, over twice as fast as other solutions. Our engineers have optimized our drivers for maximum performance all the way down to the socket level, delivering truly exceptional data access.
Future-proof integration
We continuously test against changes in the OData APIs & protocols used to connect, preventing downtime in your data and analytics processes.
Enterprise-class technical support
CData is dedicated to helping you find success with OData. We work as an extension of your team to help solve your toughest data challenges. Thousands of customers and hundreds of ISVs rely on our services to make the most of their data.
OData data for AI agents and assistants
OData MCP server connectivity for AI
Enable AI agents, assistants, and workflows to access OData data to improve output, tailoring responses to your actual business data and reducing hallucinations.
- One MCP connection from OData to every AI agent, assistant, copilot, or LLM that could use it.
- Maintain security and user permissions with pass-through user-based access and read/write controls
- Platform solution to control and monitor user access via AI across your organization.
Learn more: Connect AI: the world's first managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform.
OData connectivity for BI & analytics
Live OData access for analytics
Access OData data in all of the systems you use every day, including BI & analytics tools, databases, data warehouses, and custom apps.
- Connect OData (and any other data source) to your favorite analytics, automation, or data management app without moving data
- Bi-directional OData connectivity through common data endpoints
- Enable OData governability and data privacy with user-level permissioning at the source level.
OData ETL, replication, & data warehousing
Automate OData data replication
CData Sync automatically replicates data from hundreds of on-premises and cloud data sources — like OData — to any modern database, data lake, or data warehouse.
- Create automated OData data flows in minutes with point-and-click data replication
- Facilitate reporting, business intelligence, and analytics for decision support
- Archive data for disaster recovery
Consolidate OData data management
Data management integration enables organizations to better manage their human resources data, optimize decision-making, and ensure compliance with data governance policies. Technologies like ODBC, JDBC, and ADO easily connect with all kinds of popular data management applications.
Connect OData to data management systems to:
- Provide a single, accurate source of truth for employee and resource data.
- Ensure consistency, data quality, and integration across systems.
- Improve data discoverability, governance, and compliance, allowing for easy tracking, auditing, and efficient data use across the organization.
Connect to OData with no-code
OData is often at the center of a wide range of repetitive tasks. With low-code/no-code tools, users can automate these tasks reducing manual effort and errors.
- Customize OData and integrate it with other systems (like CRM, HR, or accounting software) without writing complex code.
- Create custom dashboards, reports, or data visualizations by integrating OData data with other systems.
Build fully-integrated custom applications
From custom AI and analytics to performance managemement and learning platforms, developers are leveraging our drivers to power all kinds of real-time integrations with OData.
What is a OData driver?
A OData driver is a software library that enables applications to interact with OData as though it were a traditional database. These drivers simplify communication by abstracting API complexities, presenting Salesforce data in a structured, database-like format.
What is a OData connector?
A OData connector is a tailored integration designed to allow proprietary applications or unique systems to seamlessly interact with OData. Built on the same robust engine as our OData drivers, these connectors provide effortless real-time access to OData data for extended application functionality.
How is developing with a OData driver different?
Drivers streamline integration by abstracting OData APIs, allowing you to access its data through standard interfaces like SQL, making them perfect for data-focused applications.
- Pragmatic API Integration: from SDKs to Data Drivers
- Data APIs: Gateway to Data Driven Operation & Digital Transformation
Embedding CData Connectivity
Virtualize access to OData data
Data virtualization tools helps organizations achieve better data access, more agile decision-making, and greater efficiency in managing data across diverse systems.
Integrating OData with data virtualization tools allows organizations to combine this data with other sources like ERP systems, CRM platforms, or financial databases without physically moving or duplicating data. This unified access enables faster, more efficient decision-making.
Connect to live OData data in spreadsheets
Work with live OData data seamlessly in Excel and Google Sheets.
- Always work with live OData data — no more downloading, copying, and pasting
- Filter and get just the attributes and data you actually need
- Refresh data with a click or set a schedule
- Update OData records right from your spreadsheet
Frequently asked OData integration questions
Common questions about OData drivers & connectors for data and analytics integration
How does the OData Driver work?
The OData driver acts like a bridge that facilitates communication between various applications and OData, allowing the application to read, write, and update data as if it were a relational database. The OData driver abstracts the complexities of OData APIs, authentication methods, and data types, making it simple for any application to connect to OData data in real-time via standard SQL queries.
How is using the OData Driver different than connecting to the OData API?
Working with a OData Driver is different than connecting with OData through other means. OData API integrations require technical experience from a software developer or IT resources. Additionally, due to the constant evolution of APIs and services, once you build your integration you have to constantly maintain OData integration code moving forward.
By comparison, our OData Drivers offer codeless access to live OData data for both technical and non-technical users alike. Any user can install our drivers and begin working with live OData data from any client application. Because our drivers conform to standard data interfaces like ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET etc. they offer a consistent, maintenance-free interface to OData data. We manage all of the complexities of OData integration within each driver and deploy updated drivers as systems evolve so your applications continue to run seamlessly.
If you need truly zero-maintenance integration, check out connectivity to OData via CData Connect AI. With Connect AI you can configure all of your data connectivity in one place and connect to OData from any of the available Cloud Drivers and Client Applications. Connectivity to OData is managed in the cloud, and you never have to worry about installing new drivers when OData is updated.
How is a OData Driver different than a OData connector?
Many organizations draw attention to their library of connectors. After all, data connectivity is a core capability needed for applications to maximize their business value. However, it is essential to understand exactly what you are getting when evaluating connectivity. Some vendors are happy to offer connectors that implement basic proof-of-concept level connectivity. These connectors may highlight the possibilities of working with OData, but often only provide a fraction of capability. Finding real value from these connectors usually requires additional IT or development resources.
Unlike these POC-quality connectors, every CData OData driver offers full-featured OData data connectivity. The CData OData drivers support extensive OData integration, providing access to all of the OData data and meta-data needed by enterprise integration or analytics projects. Each driver contains a powerful embedded SQL engine that offers applications easy and high-performance access to all OData data. In addition, our drivers offer robust authentication and security capabilities, allowing users to connect securely across a wide range of enterprise configurations. Compare drivers and connectors to read more about some of the benefits of CData's driver connectivity.
Is OData SQL based?
With our drivers and connectors, every data source is essentially SQL-based. The CData OData driver contains a full SQL-92 compliant engine that translates standard SQL queries into OData API calls dynamically. Queries are parsed and optimized for each data source, pushing down as much of the request to OData as possible. Any logic that can not be pushed to OData is handled transparently client-side by the driver/connector engine. Ultimately, this means that OData looks and acts exactly like a database to any client application or tool. Users can integrate live OData connectivity with ANY software solution that can talk to a standard database.
What data can I access with the OData driver?
What does OData integrate with?
Using the CData OData drivers and connectors, OData can be easily integrated with almost any application. Any software or technology that can integrate with a database or connect with standards-based drivers like ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, etc., can use our drivers for live OData data connectivity. Explore some of the more popular OData data integrations online.
Additionally, since OData supported by CData Connect AI, we enable all kinds of new OData cloud integrations.
How can I enable OData Analytics?
OData Analytics and OData Cloud BI integration is universally supported for BI and data science. In addition, CData provides native client connectors for popular analytics applications like Power BI, Tableau, and Excel that simplify OData data integration. Additionally, native Python connectors are widely available for data science and data engineering projects that integrate seamlessly with popular tools like Pandas, SQLAlchemy, Dash, and Petl.
How can I support OData Data Integration?
OData data integration is typically enabled with CData Sync, a robust any-to-any data pipeline solution that is easy to set up, runs everywhere, and offers comprehensive enterprise-class features for data engineering. CData Sync makes it easy to replicate OData data any database or data warehouse, and maintain parity between systems with automated incremental OData replication. In addition, our OData drivers and connectors can be easily embedded into a wide range of data integration tools to augment existing solutions.
Does OData Integrate with Excel?
Absolutely. The best way to integrate OData with Excel is by using the CData Connect AI Excel Add-In. The OData Excel Add-In provides easy OData integration directly from Microsoft Excel Desktop, Mac, or Web (Excel 365). Our integration offers live bi-directional access to OData data directly from Excel. Simply configure your connection to OData from the easy-to-use cloud interface, and access OData just like you would another native Excel data source.
Using the OData drivers
- OData Integration Guides and Tutorials
- Automated OData Services Replication to Teradata
- Automated Continuous OData Replication to Amazon Redshift
- Replicate Multiple OData Accounts via the CData Sync CLI
- How to Work with OData Services in ETL Validator JDBC
- Analyze OData Services in R via JDBC
- Viewing OData Services in RAD Studio Data Explorer
- Integrate Google
- Connect to Live OData Services in MicroStrategy through CData Connect AI
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