Cockroach Labs Databases API

Manage databases within a CockroachDB cluster, including creation, listing, updating, and deletion.

Operations 5

GET /api/v1/clusters/{cluster_id}/databases List databases #
POST /api/v1/clusters/{cluster_id}/databases Create a database #
PATCH /api/v1/clusters/{cluster_id}/databases Update a database #
PATCH /api/v1/clusters/{cluster_id}/databases/{name} Update a database #
DELETE /api/v1/clusters/{cluster_id}/databases/{name} Delete a database #

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OpenAPI Specification

cockroach-labs-databases-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Cockroach Labs Databases API
  version: '1.0'
  description: 'Operations tagged Databases across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: cockroach-labs-cloud-api-openapi.yml, cockroach-labs-openapi.json. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://cockroachlabs.cloud
  description: CockroachDB Cloud Production Server
tags:
- name: Databases
  description: Manage databases within a CockroachDB cluster, including creation, listing, updating, and deletion.
paths:
  /api/v1/clusters/{cluster_id}/databases:
    get:
      operationId: ListDatabases
      summary: List databases
      description: Returns a list of databases for the specified cluster. Supports pagination via page, limit, asOfTime, and sortOrder parameters.
      tags:
      - Databases
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/clusterId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/paginationPage'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/paginationLimit'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/paginationAsOfTime'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/paginationSortOrder'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of databases returned successfully.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ListDatabasesResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
      security:
      - bearerAuth: []
    post:
      operationId: CreateDatabase
      summary: Create a database
      description: Creates a new database within the specified cluster. Requires CLUSTER_ADMIN role at organization, folder, or cluster scope.
      tags:
      - Databases
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/clusterId'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateDatabaseRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Database created successfully.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Database'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
      security:
      - bearerAuth: []
    patch:
      operationId: CockroachCloud_EditDatabase2
      summary: Update a database
      description: 'Can be used by the following roles assigned at the organization, folder or cluster scope:

        - CLUSTER_ADMIN

        - CLUSTER_OPERATOR_WRITER

        - CLUSTER_DATA_ACCESSOR'
      parameters:
      - name: cluster_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/EditDatabaseBody'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A successful response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Database_2'
        '400':
          description: Returned when a request field is invalid.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '401':
          description: Returned when the token bearer cannot be authenticated.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '403':
          description: Returned when the user does not have permission to access the resource.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '404':
          description: Returned when the resource does not exist.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '500':
          description: Server error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        default:
          description: An unexpected error response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Status'
      tags:
      - Databases
      x-codeSamples:
      - lang: Shell + Curl
        source: "curl --request PATCH \\\n  --url https://cockroachlabs.cloud/api/v1/clusters/{cluster_id}/databases \\\n  --header 'Authorization: Bearer REPLACE_BEARER_TOKEN' \\\n  --json '{\"name\":\"example_database_name\",\"new_name\":\"example_new_database_name\"}'"
      security:
      - bearerAuth: []
    servers:
    - url: https://cockroachlabs.cloud
      description: CockroachDB Cloud Production Server
  /api/v1/clusters/{cluster_id}/databases/{name}:
    patch:
      operationId: EditDatabase
      summary: Update a database
      description: Updates the configuration of an existing database within the specified cluster. Requires CLUSTER_ADMIN role.
      tags:
      - Databases
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/clusterId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/databaseName'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/UpdateDatabaseRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Database updated successfully.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Database'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
      security:
      - bearerAuth: []
    delete:
      operationId: DeleteDatabase
      summary: Delete a database
      description: Deletes a database from the specified cluster by name. Requires CLUSTER_ADMIN role at organization, folder, or cluster scope.
      tags:
      - Databases
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/clusterId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/databaseName'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Database deleted successfully.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Database'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
      security:
      - bearerAuth: []
    servers:
    - url: https://cockroachlabs.cloud
      description: CockroachDB Cloud Production Server
components:
  schemas:
    Database:
      type: object
      description: Represents a database within a CockroachDB cluster.
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          description: Name of the database.
        table_count:
          type: integer
          description: Number of tables in the database.
    CreateDatabaseRequest:
      type: object
      description: Request body for creating a new database.
      required:
      - name
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          description: Name for the new database.
    UpdateDatabaseRequest:
      type: object
      description: Request body for updating an existing database.
      properties:
        new_name:
          type: string
          description: New name for the database.
    PaginationResponse:
      type: object
      description: Pagination metadata included in list responses.
      properties:
        next:
          type: string
          description: Token or cursor for retrieving the next page of results.
        last:
          type: string
          description: Token or cursor for the last page of results.
        time:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: Server time at which the paginated query was executed.
    Error:
      type: object
      description: Standard error response returned by the API.
      properties:
        code:
          type: integer
          description: HTTP status code of the error.
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable description of the error.
        details:
          type: array
          description: Additional detail objects providing error context.
          items:
            type: object
    ListDatabasesResponse:
      type: object
      description: Paginated list of databases in a cluster.
      properties:
        databases:
          type: array
          description: Array of database objects.
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Database'
        pagination:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/PaginationResponse'
    Database_2:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
        table_count:
          type: string
          format: int64
      required:
      - name
      title: Database
    Any:
      description: "`Any` contains an arbitrary serialized protocol buffer message along with a\nURL that describes the type of the serialized message.\n\nIn its binary encoding, an `Any` is an ordinary message; but in other wire\nforms like JSON, it has a special encoding. The format of the type URL is\ndescribed on the `type_url` field.\n\nProtobuf APIs provide utilities to interact with `Any` values:\n\n- A 'pack' operation accepts a message and constructs a generic `Any` wrapper\n  around it.\n- An 'unpack' operation reads the content of an `Any` message, either into an\n  existing message or a new one. Unpack operations must check the type of the\n  value they unpack against the declared `type_url`.\n- An 'is' operation decides whether an `Any` contains a message of the given\n  type, i.e. whether it can 'unpack' that type.\n\nThe JSON format representation of an `Any` follows one of these cases:\n\n- For types without special-cased JSON encodings, the JSON format\n  representation of the `Any` is the same as that of the message, with an\n  additional `@type` field which contains the type URL.\n- For types with special-cased JSON encodings (typically called 'well-known'\n  types, listed in https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/json/#any), the\n  JSON format representation has a key `@type` which contains the type URL\n  and a key `value` which contains the JSON-serialized value.\n\nThe text format representation of an `Any` is like a message with one field\nwhose name is the type URL in brackets. For example, an `Any` containing a\n`foo.Bar` message may be written `[type.googleapis.com/foo.Bar] { a: 2 }`."
      type: object
      properties:
        '@type':
          description: 'Identifies the type of the serialized Protobuf message with a URI reference

            consisting of a prefix ending in a slash and the fully-qualified type name.


            Example: type.googleapis.com/google.protobuf.StringValue


            This string must contain at least one `/` character, and the content after

            the last `/` must be the fully-qualified name of the type in canonical

            form, without a leading dot. Do not write a scheme on these URI references

            so that clients do not attempt to contact them.


            The prefix is arbitrary and Protobuf implementations are expected to

            simply strip off everything up to and including the last `/` to identify

            the type. `type.googleapis.com/` is a common default prefix that some

            legacy implementations require. This prefix does not indicate the origin of

            the type, and URIs containing it are not expected to respond to any

            requests.


            All type URL strings must be legal URI references with the additional

            restriction (for the text format) that the content of the reference

            must consist only of alphanumeric characters, percent-encoded escapes, and

            characters in the following set (not including the outer backticks):

            `/-.~_!$&()*+,;=`. Despite our allowing percent encodings, implementations

            should not unescape them to prevent confusion with existing parsers. For

            example, `type.googleapis.com%2FFoo` should be rejected.


            In the original design of `Any`, the possibility of launching a type

            resolution service at these type URLs was considered but Protobuf never

            implemented one and considers contacting these URLs to be problematic and

            a potential security issue. Do not attempt to contact type URLs.'
          type: string
      additionalProperties: {}
    ListDatabasesResponse_2:
      type: object
      properties:
        databases:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Database_2'
        pagination:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/KeysetPaginationResponse'
      required:
      - databases
      title: ListDatabasesResponse
    CreateDatabaseBody:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
      example:
        name: example_database_name
      required:
      - name
      title: CreateDatabaseRequest
    Status:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: integer
          format: int32
        details:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Any'
        message:
          type: string
    KeysetPaginationResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        next_page:
          type: string
        previous_page:
          type: string
    EditDatabaseBody:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
        new_name:
          type: string
      example:
        name: example_database_name
        new_name: example_new_database_name
      required:
      - new_name
      - name
      title: UpdateDatabaseRequest
  parameters:
    paginationPage:
      name: pagination.page
      in: query
      description: Page number for paginated results, starting from 1.
      schema:
        type: string
    clusterId:
      name: cluster_id
      in: path
      required: true
      description: Unique identifier of the CockroachDB Cloud cluster.
      schema:
        type: string
    paginationAsOfTime:
      name: pagination.as_of_time
      in: query
      description: RFC3339 timestamp to return results as they were at a specific point in time (time-travel query).
      schema:
        type: string
        format: date-time
    paginationLimit:
      name: pagination.limit
      in: query
      description: Maximum number of results to return per page.
      schema:
        type: integer
        format: int32
        minimum: 1
        maximum: 500
    paginationSortOrder:
      name: pagination.sort_order
      in: query
      description: Sort direction for paginated results. Accepted values are ASC and DESC.
      schema:
        type: string
        enum:
        - ASC
        - DESC
    databaseName:
      name: name
      in: path
      required: true
      description: Name of the database.
      schema:
        type: string
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Authentication credentials are missing or invalid.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    NotFound:
      description: The requested resource was not found.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    BadRequest:
      description: The request body or parameters are invalid.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Bearer token authentication. Generate a token in the CockroachDB Cloud Console under Organization Settings > API Access.
    Bearer:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
x-refined-from:
- cockroach-labs-cloud-api-openapi.yml
- cockroach-labs-openapi.json