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 Appwrite, CData, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and 24 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related areas: Serverless, Containers, Caching, and Agents. 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 (238)
Top 30 of 238 network providers tagged for this area — search the full set on apis.io.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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... | 7 | 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 |
| 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... | 3 | 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 |
| 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... | 3 | 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 ... | 7 | exemplar |
| 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 | exemplar |
| 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 | exemplar |
| 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 | exemplar |
| 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 | exemplar |
| 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 | exemplar |
| Oracle | Collection of Oracle's APIs and developer resources across cloud infrastructure, databases, AI services, SaaS applications, and platform services. | 161 | 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 |
| 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 | exemplar |
| 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 | exemplar |
| Amazon ElastiCache | Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed in-memory caching service supporting Redis and Memcached. ElastiCache makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale popular open-source compa... | 1 | exemplar |
| Microsoft SQL Server | Microsoft SQL Server is Microsoft's relational database management system for enterprise data management, analytics and business intelligence. Its programmable surfaces span cli... | 3 | exemplar |
| 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 | exemplar |
| 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... | 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 |
| Quickbase | Quickbase is a no-code / low-code application platform for dynamic work and complex project management, letting business teams build custom apps on shared data to improve their ... | 1 | 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... | 1 | strong |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Insforge | InsForge is an open-source (Apache-2.0), agent-native cloud infrastructure platform built so that AI coding agents can provision and operate an entire backend end to end through... | 14 | strong |
| Azure SQL Database | Azure SQL Database is a fully managed relational database service built on the SQL Server engine with built-in intelligence, high availability, and elastic scaling. It is manage... | 6 | strong |
| VividCortex | VividCortex is a SaaS database performance monitoring platform, now part of SolarWinds and marketed as SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM). It uses lightweight per-hos... | 1 | strong |
Terms in this area (7)
- Binary Format — Binary format refers to data encoding and serialization methods that use binary rather than text representations, including formats like Protocol Buffers, Mess…
- File Format — File formats define how information is encoded for storage in a computer file, spanning images (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, AVIF), audio (WAV, MP3, OGG, FLAC), video…
- Fixed Format — Fixed format (also known as fixed-width) is a data interchange approach where every field has a predefined column width and is space-padded as needed. It contr…
- MapReduce — MapReduce is a programming model and processing technique for computing large data sets in parallel across a distributed cluster. Originally developed by Googl…
- Partitioning — Partitioning is a data and systems concept used to divide databases, tables, storage, or workloads into smaller, more manageable pieces for performance, scalab…
- Raft — Raft is a consensus algorithm for distributed systems designed to be understandable and provide the same guarantees as Paxos, used for distributed log replicat…
- Sharding — Sharding is a technology or concept used in computing and information technology to address specific technical challenges. It provides capabilities that help p…
Related areas
Serverless (6 shared)
Containers (2 shared)
Caching (1 shared)
Agents (1 shared)
Authentication (1 shared)
Gateway (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 29 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
29
of 30 in the catalog
Mean Kin Score
70.4
+47.6 vs catalog 22.8
Mean Agent Readiness
41.1
+27.8 vs catalog 13.3
Spread
63.2–84.6
median 68.6 · σ 6
How the 29 split by band
Exemplar 21Strong 8Developing 0Thin 0Emerging 0Minimal 0
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access Clarity | 86.8 | 25 | +61.8 | 29 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 75 | 22.1 | +52.9 | 29 |
| Operational Transparency | 56.5 | 12.4 | +44.1 | 29 |
| Contract Quality | 62.1 | 18.2 | +43.9 | 29 |
| Contract Governance | 27 | 9.4 | +17.6 | 29 |
| Discoverability | 73.2 | 57.9 | +15.3 | 29 |
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) | 72% | 16% | +56 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 66% | 14% | +52 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 31% | 13% | +18 |
| Security | 100% | 98% | +2 |
| Arazzo workflows | 38% | 2% | +36 |
| Governance rules | 100% | 35% | +65 |
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 84.6
- 2 CData 83.8
- 3 Amazon DynamoDB 80.9
- 4 MongoDB 77.8
- 5 ClickHouse 76.9
- 6 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 76.9
- 7 Amazon Lightsail 75.4
- 8 Cockroach Labs 74.3
- 9 Prisma 73.6
- 10 Timescale 70.2
Top by Agent Readiness
- 1 CData 67.3
- 2 ClickHouse 58.4
- 3 Insforge 56.6
- 4 Appwrite 56.3
- 5 Oracle 56.3
- 6 MongoDB 56
- 7 Notion 54.9
- 8 Prisma 54
- 9 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 52.1
- 10 Quickbase 51.2
All 30 members of this roster resolve to a provider in the
catalog; 29 carry a score (97%).
The figures above describe the scored members only.Generated from the catalog build of
7 November 2026, across 38912
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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