# YugabyteDB

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/yugabytedb/  
**Website:** https://www.yugabyte.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 73

YugabyteDB is a distributed PostgreSQL-compatible SQL database for cloud-native and mission-critical applications. It is delivered as open-source YugabyteDB Core, the fully managed YugabyteDB Aeon DBaaS, and the self-managed YugabyteDB Anywhere control plane, with REST APIs for programmatic management of accounts, projects, clusters, universes, backups, restores, read replicas, allow lists, and maintenance windows.

## Kin Score — 50.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.4 from 50.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 22.3 |
| Governance | 13.6 |
| Contract Governance | 13.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 44.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 83.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 65.8 |
| Access Clarity | 65.8 |

## Agent readiness — 55.4 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (73)

- **YugabyteDB Access Keys API** — The Access Keys API from YugabyteDB — 3 operation(s) for access keys.
- **YugabyteDB Accounts API** — Retrieve account-level information for the authenticated user, including account ID and metadata used to scope all other API requests.
- **YugabyteDB Alerts API** — The Alerts API from YugabyteDB — 24 operation(s) for alerts.
- **YugabyteDB AllowLists API** — Manage IP allow lists that control which client IP addresses or CIDR ranges are permitted to connect to a cluster.
- **YugabyteDB Asynchronous Replication API** — The Asynchronous Replication API from YugabyteDB — 6 operation(s) for asynchronous replication.
- **YugabyteDB Audit API** — The Audit API from YugabyteDB — 3 operation(s) for audit.
- **YugabyteDB Authentication API** — Authentication operations on YBA
- **YugabyteDB Availability Zones API** — The Availability Zones API from YugabyteDB — 4 operation(s) for availability zones.
- **YugabyteDB Backup and Restore API** — Operations related to universe backup and restore
- **YugabyteDB Backups API** — Manage backup schedules and trigger on-demand backups for YugabyteDB Aeon clusters. Backups are stored in the same region as the cluster.
- **YugabyteDB Certificate Info API** — The Certificate Info API from YugabyteDB — 7 operation(s) for certificate info.
- **YugabyteDB Cloud providers API** — The Cloud providers API from YugabyteDB — 8 operation(s) for cloud providers.
- **YugabyteDB Clusters API** — Create, list, retrieve, update, pause, resume, and delete YugabyteDB clusters within an account and project. Supports both single-region and multi-region cluster configurations.
- **YugabyteDB Continuous Backup API** — CRUD operations for Continuous YBA Backups
- **YugabyteDB Custom CA Certificates API** — The Custom CA Certificates API from YugabyteDB — 4 operation(s) for custom ca certificates.
- **YugabyteDB Customer Configuration API** — The Customer Configuration API from YugabyteDB — 7 operation(s) for customer configuration.
- **YugabyteDB Customer management API** — The Customer management API from YugabyteDB — 4 operation(s) for customer management.
- **YugabyteDB Customer Tasks API** — The Customer Tasks API from YugabyteDB — 8 operation(s) for customer tasks.
- **YugabyteDB Disaster Recovery API** — The Disaster Recovery API from YugabyteDB — 15 operation(s) for disaster recovery.
- **YugabyteDB Encryption at rest API** — The Encryption at rest API from YugabyteDB — 7 operation(s) for encryption at rest.
- **YugabyteDB Extract metadata from remote tarball API** — The Extract metadata from remote tarball API from YugabyteDB — 2 operation(s) for extract metadata from remote tarball.
- **YugabyteDB GFlags Validation APIs API** — The GFlags Validation APIs API from YugabyteDB — 3 operation(s) for gflags validation apis.
- **YugabyteDB Grafana Dashboard API** — The Grafana Dashboard API from YugabyteDB — 1 operation(s) for grafana dashboard.
- **YugabyteDB HA API** — The HA API from YugabyteDB — 3 operation(s) for ha.
- **YugabyteDB Instance types API** — The Instance types API from YugabyteDB — 5 operation(s) for instance types.
- **YugabyteDB Internal HA API** — The Internal HA API from YugabyteDB — 5 operation(s) for internal ha.
- **YugabyteDB Isolated Backup API** — Isolated backup/restore of YBA to local filesystem
- **YugabyteDB Job Scheduler API** — Job Scheduler
- **YugabyteDB KubernetesOverridesController API** — The KubernetesOverridesController API from YugabyteDB — 1 operation(s) for kubernetesoverridescontroller.
- **YugabyteDB LDAP Role management API** — The LDAP Role management API from YugabyteDB — 1 operation(s) for ldap role management.
- **YugabyteDB LDAPOIDC Role management API** — The LDAPOIDC Role management API from YugabyteDB — 3 operation(s) for ldapoidc role management.
- **YugabyteDB License management API** — The License management API from YugabyteDB — 2 operation(s) for license management.
- **YugabyteDB LoggingConfig API** — The LoggingConfig API from YugabyteDB — 2 operation(s) for loggingconfig.
- **YugabyteDB Maintenance windows API** — The Maintenance windows API from YugabyteDB — 4 operation(s) for maintenance windows.
- **YugabyteDB MaintenanceWindows API** — Configure scheduled maintenance windows for clusters to control when Yugabyte applies software patches and infrastructure updates.
- **YugabyteDB Metrics API** — The Metrics API from YugabyteDB — 2 operation(s) for metrics.
- **YugabyteDB New Release management API** — The New Release management API from YugabyteDB — 2 operation(s) for new release management.
- **YugabyteDB Node Agents API** — The Node Agents API from YugabyteDB — 5 operation(s) for node agents.
- **YugabyteDB Node instances API** — The Node instances API from YugabyteDB — 10 operation(s) for node instances.
- **YugabyteDB PA Collector API** — The PA Collector API from YugabyteDB — 4 operation(s) for pa collector.
- …and 33 more, listed in full on the page.

## MCP servers (1)

- **MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Yugabytedb Agentic Access** — 895 operations · 571 acting · 33 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Yugabytedb Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **Yugabytedb Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Yugabytedb Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001

## Plans (1)

- **Yugabytedb Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (8)

- **Database Modernization** — Replace legacy monolithic RDBMS systems with a horizontally scalable, PostgreSQL-compatible alternative.
- **Cloud-Native Applications** — Power Kubernetes-deployed and microservices applications with a resilient distributed SQL backend.
- **Multi-Region SaaS** — Operate global SaaS platforms with low-latency reads and disaster-recovery-ready writes.
- **Financial Services** — Run mission-critical transaction systems requiring strong consistency and high availability.
- **Retail and eCommerce** — Handle high-throughput product catalogs, inventory, and orders across regions.
- **Telecommunications** — Support subscriber, billing, and session data at carrier scale.
- **GenAI and RAG** — Store embeddings and metadata for retrieval-augmented generation pipelines.
- **Edge and Streaming** — Provide a durable distributed SQL store for edge and streaming application data.

## Tags

Cloud Database, Database, Database-as-a-Service, Distributed SQL, PostgreSQL

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