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CData

CData Software is a leading provider of data access and connectivity solutions. Our standards-based connectors streamline data access and insulate customers from the complexities of integrating with on-premise or cloud databases, SaaS, APIs, NoSQL, and Big Data.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles CData the way a machine reads it — 310 machine-readable artifacts across 11 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — CData scores 48.5/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 48.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 13.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.3 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.2 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile CData

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for CData. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 11

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

CData SQL API

The CData Cloud SQL API provides HTTP-based access to execute SQL queries, batch operations, and stored procedures across all data sources configured in a CData Connect Cloud ac...

CData Metadata API

The CData Cloud Metadata API exposes catalog information including schemas, tables, columns, keys, and stored procedures across every configured data source, enabling tools to i...

CData Log API

The CData Cloud Log API retrieves operational logs for queries, jobs, and connection events, enabling observability of the CData Connect Cloud service.

CData Connection API

The CData Cloud Connection API manages data source connections programmatically, allowing administrators to create, update, test, and delete connections to databases and SaaS ap...

CData Job API

The CData Cloud Job API monitors background jobs such as replication, caching, and scheduled operations, exposing job state and history.

CData Account API

The CData Cloud Account API manages account settings, workspaces, and user-level configuration for the CData Connect Cloud tenant.

CData Audit API

The CData Cloud Audit API tracks system activities and administrative events, supporting compliance and security monitoring requirements such as SOC 2 and GDPR.

CData OData API

CData Connect Cloud exposes an OData v4 compatible API that allows any OData client to browse metadata and query data from any configured source, including Excel, Power BI, and ...

CData Metadata API

Catalog/metadata exploration

CData Procedures API

Execute stored procedures

CData Query API

Execute SQL queries and batch operations

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cdata Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cdata Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Cdata Finops

FINOPS

Features 50

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

SQL

ODBC

JDBC

ADO.NET

Excel

SSIS

EDI

FTP

X12

EDIFact

HL7 FHIR

CSV

XML

ETL

ELT

SOC

SOC2

GDPR

Data Quality

Data Security

Data Compliance

Data Transformation

SQL Normalization

Metadata Caching

Data Modeling

Data Governance

Data Replication

Data Backups

API Server

Embedded Integrations

Streaming

Kafka

Data Lakehouse

Data Warehouse

Security

Authentication

Hybrid-Cloud

Multi-Cloud

Semantic Layer

Analytical Queries

Data Intensive Workloads

No-Code

Low-Code

Virtual Datasets

Dashboards

Reports

Insights

Intelligence

Automation

Webhooks

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Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Cdata Authentication

http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Cdata Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Cdata Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Cdata Agentic Access

7 operations · 3 acting

7 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Integrations 240

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Access

Act CRM

Act-On

Active Directory

ActiveCampaign

Acumatica

Adobe Analytics

Adobe Commerce

ADP

Airtable

AlloyDB

Amazon Athena

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon Marketplace

Amazon S3

Asana

Authorize.Net

Avalara AvaTax

Avro

Azure Active Directory

Azure Analysis Services

Azure Data Catalog

Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure DevOps

Azure Synapse

Azure Table

Basecamp

BigCommerce

BigQuery

Bing Ads

Bing Search

Bitbucket

Blackbaud FE NXT

Box

Bullhorn CRM

Cassandra

Certinia

Cloudant

CockroachDB

Confluence

Cosmos DB

Couchbase

CouchDB

CSV

Cvent

Databricks

DB2

DocuSign

Dropbox

Dynamics 365

Dynamics 365 Business Central

Dynamics CRM

Dynamics GP

Dynamics NAV

eBay

eBay Analytics

Elasticsearch

Email

EnterpriseDB

Epicor Kinetic

Exact Online

Excel

Excel Online

Facebook

Facebook Ads

FHIR

Freshdesk

FTP

GitHub

Gmail

Google Ad Manager

Google Ads

Google Analytics

Google Calendar

Google Campaign Manager 360

Google Cloud Storage

Google Contacts

Google Data Catalog

Google Directory

Google Drive

Google Search

Google Sheets

Google Spanner

GraphQL

Greenhouse

Greenplum

HarperDB

HBase

HCL Domino

HDFS

Highrise

Hive

HubDB

HubSpot

IBM Cloud Data Engine

IBM Cloud Object Storage

IBM Informix

Impala

Instagram

JDBC-ODBC Bridge

Jira

Jira Assets

Jira Service Management

JSON

Kafka

Kintone

LDAP

LinkedIn

LinkedIn Ads

MailChimp

MariaDB

Marketo

MarkLogic

Microsoft Dataverse

Microsoft Entra ID

Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft OneDrive

Microsoft Planner

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Teams

Monday.com

MongoDB

MYOB AccountRight

MySQL

nCino

Neo4J

NetSuite

OData

Odoo

Office 365

Okta

OneNote

Oracle

Oracle Eloqua

Oracle Financials Cloud

Oracle HCM Cloud

Oracle Sales

Oracle SCM

Oracle Service Cloud

Outreach.io

Parquet

Paylocity

PayPal

Phoenix

PingOne

Pinterest

Pipedrive

PostgreSQL

Power BI XMLA

Presto

Quickbase

QuickBooks

QuickBooks Online

QuickBooks Time

Raisers Edge NXT

Reckon

Reckon Accounts Hosted

Redis

Redshift

REST

RSS

Sage 200

Sage 300

Sage 50 UK

Sage Cloud Accounting

Sage Intacct

Salesforce

Salesforce Data Cloud

Salesforce Financial Service Cloud

Salesforce Marketing

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement

Salesforce Pardot

Salesloft

SAP

SAP Ariba Procurement

SAP Ariba Source

SAP Business One

SAP BusinessObjects BI

SAP ByDesign

SAP Concur

SAP Fieldglass

SAP HANA

SAP HANA XS Advanced

SAP Hybris C4C

SAP Netweaver Gateway

SAP SuccessFactors

SAS Data Sets

SAS xpt

SendGrid

ServiceNow

SFTP

SharePoint

SharePoint Excel Services

ShipStation

Shopify

SingleStore

Slack

Smartsheet

Snapchat Ads

Snowflake

Spark

Splunk

SQL Analysis Services

SQL Server

SQLite

Square

Stripe

Sugar CRM

SuiteCRM

SurveyMonkey

Sybase

Sybase IQ

Tableau CRM Analytics

Tally

TaxJar

Teradata

Tier1

TigerGraph

Trello

Trino

Twilio

Twitter

Twitter Ads

Veeva CRM

Veeva Vault

Wave Financial

WooCommerce

WordPress

Workday

xBase

Xero

XML

YouTube Analytics

Zendesk

Zoho Books

Zoho Creator

Zoho CRM

Zoho Inventory

Zoho Projects

Zuora

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Resources

Every other property we hold for CData — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Learn 2

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

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