I did some OData a few years ago when it was hip & trendy in .NET land. Right when Facebook announced GraphQL I got a deja vu - our problem with OData was that while the query syntax was awesome, making a server endpoint for it was super hard (unless you happened to be 100% entity framework and wanted all REST data to CRUD straight into the DB and back - which is of course never the case).

I now see people on HN have very similar complaints about GraphQL - how its power and flexibility makes making a performant and secure GraphQL backend significantly harder than making an oldschool REST API backend.

We ended up regex-parsing the OData query fragments that our app happened to use and made it work. We felt dirty for months after, though.

Does anyone have experience with both? Is GraphQL any better than OData in server-side implementability?