# Apache DolphinScheduler

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/apache-dolphinscheduler/  
**Website:** https://dolphinscheduler.apache.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Apache DolphinScheduler is a modern distributed and extensible data orchestration platform governed by the Apache Software Foundation. It provides a DAG-based visual workflow designer, multi-master/multi-worker architecture for horizontal scaling, and a comprehensive REST API for programmatic control. It supports dozens of task types (Shell, Spark, Flink, SQL, Python, HTTP, etc.), multi-cloud deployments, multi-tenancy, backfill, and a Python SDK (PyDolphinScheduler).

## Kin Score — 25.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 25.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 29.6 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Apache DolphinScheduler REST API** — The DolphinScheduler REST API enables programmatic management of projects, workflow definitions (DAGs), workflow instances, task types, schedules, resources, data sources, alert...

## Security (2)

- **Apache Dolphinscheduler Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Apache Dolphinscheduler Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Apache Dolphinscheduler Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Data Pipeline Orchestration** — Orchestrate complex ETL/ELT data pipelines with dependencies, retries, and monitoring across distributed systems.
- **Machine Learning Workflows** — Schedule and manage ML model training, evaluation, and deployment pipelines with task dependencies.
- **Multi-Cloud Data Workflows** — Orchestrate workflows spanning multiple cloud providers and data centers with unified scheduling.
- **SQL and Analytics Scheduling** — Schedule recurring SQL queries, reports, and analytics jobs against multiple data sources.
- **DevOps and CI/CD Pipelines** — Automate deployment workflows, data quality checks, and operational tasks with DolphinScheduler DAGs.

## Tags

Apache, DAG, Data Pipeline, Open-Source, Orchestration, Python, Scheduling, Workflows

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/apache-dolphinscheduler/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.