# Vitess

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vitess/  
**Website:** https://vitess.io  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Vitess is a CNCF graduated database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL through generalized sharding. It provides MySQL protocol compatibility, automated resharding, query routing, and connection pooling, making it suitable for running large-scale MySQL deployments on Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms.

## Kin Score — 31.3 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 31.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 33.3 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 15.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium · Requires approval — onboarding: approval, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **Vitess VTGate API** — VTGate is the stateless proxy that routes queries to the appropriate VTTablet instances. It exposes a MySQL-compatible interface and a gRPC API that clients use to interact with...
- **Vitess VTAdmin API** — VTAdmin is the administrative web application and REST API for managing Vitess clusters. It provides endpoints for inspecting cluster topology, tablets, keyspaces, shards, schem...
- **Vitess VTCtld API** — VTCtld is the Vitess topology management daemon that exposes a gRPC and HTTP API for administrative operations on the cluster topology including creating and managing keyspaces,...
- **Vitess VReplication API** — VReplication is the Vitess framework for replicating and transforming data streams within and across Vitess clusters. It powers features such as MoveTables, Reshard, Materialize...

## Security (1)

- **Vitess Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Vitess Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Cloud-Native, CNCF, Database, Distributed Systems, Graduated, MySQL, Sharding

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