# Compose

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/compose/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Compose (Compose, Inc., compose.io) was a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that offered production-ready, auto-scaling, hosted deployments of open-source databases — MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, RethinkDB, ScyllaDB, etcd, MySQL, and Disque — each provisioned with high availability, automated backups, and a REST API for programmatic management. Founded in 2010 as MongoHQ and rebranded to Compose in 2014, the company was backed by DCVC (Data Collective) and was acquired by IBM in 2015, after which the offering was folded into IBM Cloud as "IBM Compose" / IBM Cloud Databases. The standalone Compose service and its developer surface (compose.com, compose.io, apidocs.compose.com) have since been deprecated and taken offline. This profile documents the surviving, verifiable first-party artifacts — the archived GitHub organization at github.com/compose, the official Go SDK (gocomposeapi) wrapping the Compose REST API, and the official command-line tools (bach, cocli).

## Kin Score — 10.3 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (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 | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Database, Database-as-a-Service, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Cloud, Managed Database

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