# TimescaleDB / Tiger Data

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/timescaledb/  
**Website:** https://www.tigerdata.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

TimescaleDB (now part of Tiger Data) is a PostgreSQL-native time-series database featuring hypertables, columnstore (Hypercore), continuous aggregates, retention policies and hyperfunctions. The managed Tiger Cloud platform exposes a public REST API for managing projects, services, VPCs, peering and read replicas, while the database itself is consumed via standard PostgreSQL wire protocol.

## Kin Score — 31.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 31.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 50.1 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 19.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium (free trial) — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **TimescaleDB PostgreSQL Wire Interface** — The database itself is accessed via the PostgreSQL wire protocol (port 5432), with TimescaleDB SQL functions for hypertable management, compression, continuous aggregates and hy...
- **TimescaleDB / Tiger Data Analytics API** — Track analytics events.
- **TimescaleDB / Tiger Data Auth API** — Authentication and authorization information.
- **TimescaleDB / Tiger Data Read Replica Sets API** — The Read Replica Sets API from TimescaleDB / Tiger Data — 6 operation(s) for read replica sets.
- **TimescaleDB / Tiger Data Services API** — Manage services, read replicas, and their associated actions.
- **TimescaleDB / Tiger Data VPCs API** — Manage VPCs and their peering connections.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Timescaledb Agentic Access** — 35 operations · 26 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Timescaledb Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Timescaledb Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Timescaledb Trust Center** — SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR

## Plans (1)

- **Timescaledb Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Database, Time Series, PostgreSQL, Open-Source, Cloud, Hypertables, Continuous Aggregates, Tiger Cloud

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