Database is one of the API Evangelist areas on the APIs.io network — a focused corner of the API landscape. The full area lives at database.apievangelist.com.
30 providers on the network work in this area, including CData, Appwrite, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Amazon Lightsail, and 24 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related areas: Serverless, Containers, Agents, and Authentication. Browse every area at areas.apis.io.
About this area
An index and topic collection covering managed databases and database-as-a-service offerings exposing APIs. Database APIs enable developers to provision, configure, query,…
Related providers (217)
Top 30 of 217 network providers tagged for this area — search the full set on apis.io.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| CData | CData Software is a leading provider of data access and connectivity solutions. Our standards-based connectors streamline data access and insulate customers from the complexitie... | 9 | exemplar |
| Appwrite | Appwrite is an open-source backend platform for web, mobile and AI applications, shipped both as a self-hostable BSD-3-Clause server and as the managed Appwrite Cloud. One REST ... | 2 | exemplar |
| Amazon DynamoDB | Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability, allowing you to store and retrieve any amount... | 1 | exemplar |
| MongoDB | MongoDB provides a document‑model database platform that can be deployed on any cloud or on‑premises infrastructure. It offers services such as MongoDB Atlas for multi‑cloud dat... | 2 | exemplar |
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracle's public cloud, exposed as a REST control plane of 159 service APIs covering compute, virtual cloud networking, block and object stor... | 9 | exemplar |
| Amazon Lightsail | Amazon Lightsail is a virtual private server (VPS) provider and is the easiest way to get started with AWS for developers, small businesses, students, and other users who need a... | 3 | exemplar |
| ClickHouse | ClickHouse is a fast open-source column-oriented database management system that enables real-time analytical reporting using SQL. ClickHouse exposes multiple interfaces - an HT... | 2 | exemplar |
| Prisma | Prisma gives TypeScript and Node.js teams a type-safe ORM, managed serverless Postgres, and Compute for deploying apps and AI agents next to their database. The product line is ... | 8 | exemplar |
| Cockroach Labs | Cockroach Labs is the New York-based software company that builds CockroachDB, a cloud-native, distributed, PostgreSQL-compatible SQL database. CockroachDB is offered as Cockroa... | 4 | exemplar |
| Amazon Neptune | Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. It supports p... | 9 | exemplar |
| IBM | IBM offers solutions that protect identities and sensitive access for enterprise customers. Its IBM Vault® product is highlighted as a tool for identity protection and regulator... | 1 | strong |
| Nutanix | Nutanix is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution that integrates compute, virtualization, storage, networking, and security to power enterprise applications. Nutanix provide... | 2 | strong |
| Oracle | Collection of Oracle's APIs and developer resources across cloud infrastructure, databases, AI services, SaaS applications, and platform services. | 161 | strong |
| Timescale | Timescale — rebranded as Tiger Data in 2025 — is the PostgreSQL data platform company behind TimescaleDB, the open-source PostgreSQL extension for time-series and real-time anal... | 2 | strong |
| Couchbase | Couchbase is a distributed, document-oriented NoSQL cloud database platform that combines the flexibility of JSON, the power of SQL++ querying, and the performance of an in-memo... | 12 | strong |
| Apple CloudKit | Apple CloudKit is the cloud backend for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and the web. CloudKit Web Services is the public REST surface that lets non-Apple-platform c... | 1 | strong |
| Airtable | Airtable is a cloud-based collaboration service that combines the simplicity of a spreadsheet with the complexity of a database. It provides APIs for managing bases, tables, rec... | 3 | strong |
| Notion | Notion is an all-in-one workspace that combines notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. The Notion API allows developers to integrate Notion with other tools and build custom applic... | 1 | strong |
| PingCAP | PingCAP is the company behind TiDB, an open-source, MySQL-compatible distributed SQL database built for hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP), horizontal scale-o... | 22 | strong |
| Microsoft SQL Server | A relational database management system developed by Microsoft for enterprise-scale data management and business intelligence solutions. | 30 | strong |
| Oracle GoldenGate | Oracle GoldenGate enables real-time data integration and replication in heterogeneous IT environments. These APIs provide programmatic access to manage and monitor GoldenGate de... | 6 | strong |
| AI for Database | AI for Database is a natural-language data layer for operational databases, built by Wavicle.tech. It connects read-only to PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, MongoDB, SQLi... | 4 | strong |
| InfluxData | InfluxData is the company behind InfluxDB, the leading open source time series database purpose-built for real-time analytics, monitoring, IoT and sensor data, application metri... | 2 | strong |
| Amazon Keyspaces | Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that lets you run Cassandra workloads on AWS wi... | 1 | strong |
| Ablo | Ablo is collaboration infrastructure for AI agents: one API that lets agents, apps and people claim, change and confirm the same database rows without clobbering each other. Row... | 2 | strong |
| Amazon RDS | Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud, providing cost-efficient and resizable capacity while au... | 1 | strong |
| Neo4j | Neo4j is the leading graph database platform, enabling developers to build applications powered by connected data. Their developer platform provides HTTP, Query, and Aura cloud ... | 2 | strong |
| Yugabyte | Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, an open source (Apache 2.0), PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database built for cloud-native and mission-critical applications. ... | 73 | strong |
| Pinecone | With its vector database at the core, Pinecone is the leading knowledge platform for building accurate, secure, and scalable AI applications. The Pinecone APIs cover Database (v... | 11 | strong |
| Amazon DocumentDB | Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, MongoDB-compatible document database service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale MongoDB-compatible databases in the cloud. Do... | 1 | strong |
Related areas
Serverless (5 shared)
Containers (2 shared)
Agents (1 shared)
Authentication (1 shared)
Machine Learning (1 shared)
Management (1 shared)
Markets provisional
Kin Score markets whose measured providers carry this area. Share is the fraction of the market's measured providers that carry it — it describes the market, not this area.
| Market | Share of the market's providers |
|---|---|
| Databases (PostgreSQL wire) | 90% |
| Streaming (Apache Kafka protocol) | 25% |
| Search API (Elasticsearch / OpenSearch shape) | 20% |
| Container Registries (OCI Distribution) | 10% |
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 30 providers in the APIs.io catalog working in Database, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
Providers
30
all scored
Mean Kin Score
64.9
+42.0 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
37
+25 vs catalog 12
Spread
55–83.6
median 62.6 · σ 7.6
How the 30 split by band
Exemplar 8Strong 22Developing 0Thin 0Emerging 0Minimal 0
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer Ergonomics | 72.5 | 23.1 | +49.4 | 30 |
| Access Clarity | 74.8 | 26.4 | +48.4 | 30 |
| Contract Quality | 58.3 | 17.6 | +40.7 | 30 |
| Operational Transparency | 52.7 | 13.6 | +39.1 | 30 |
| Contract Governance | 23.9 | 6.3 | +17.6 | 30 |
| Discoverability | 70.4 | 58.2 | +12.2 | 30 |
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
What this cohort publishes
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 60% | 15% | +45 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 50% | 12% | +38 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 27% | 11% | +16 |
| Security | 100% | 98% | +2 |
| Arazzo workflows | 47% | 2% | +45 |
| Governance rules | 70% | 13% | +57 |
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
Top by Kin Score
- 1 Appwrite 83.6
- 2 Amazon DynamoDB 80.3
- 3 CData 78
- 4 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 76.9
- 5 Amazon Lightsail 75.3
- 6 ClickHouse 73.5
- 7 Prisma 73.2
- 8 Amazon Neptune 68.4
- 9 Oracle 66.4
- 10 Apple CloudKit 65.9
Top by Agent Readiness
- 1 CData 66.5
- 2 ClickHouse 59.6
- 3 MongoDB 58.6
- 4 Appwrite 54.5
- 5 Prisma 54.2
- 6 Notion 52.3
- 7 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 49.3
- 8 Airtable 47.5
- 9 PingCAP 42.6
- 10 Pinecone 42.4
All 30 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in
the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of
3 October 2026, across 28834
providers, using the same computation served by the
APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of
5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
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