DataStax
DataStax is the company behind Astra DB, a serverless, multi-cloud database and vector-search platform built on Apache Cassandra, along with Langflow, RAGStack, and the Astra Streaming (Apache Pulsar) event platform for building generative-AI and real-time applications. Developers interact with Astra DB through the Data API (JSON document, table, and vector operations), the legacy REST, Document, and GraphQL APIs, and the Astra DevOps API for programmatic administration of databases, keyspaces, access lists, roles, users, tokens, private links, and CDC. DataStax publishes official client SDKs (Python astrapy, TypeScript astra-db-ts, Go astra-db-go), the Java-based Astra CLI, and an official Astra DB Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for agentic access. DataStax was acquired by IBM in 2025 and its Astra products are now part of the IBM watsonx data portfolio, while the developer surface remains hosted on datastax.com, docs.datastax.com, astra.datastax.com, and github.com/datastax.
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.
API Evangelist profiles DataStax the way a machine reads it — 24 machine-readable artifacts across 17 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 — DataStax scores 53.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 65/100 (agent native). 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile DataStax
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for DataStax. 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 17
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.
DataStax Access List API
View, create, modify, or delete the IP access list for an Astra database.
DataStax Authentication API
Generate and revoke tokens that are used to authenticate DevOps API operations.
DataStax Clone API
Use the DevOps API to clone databases.
DataStax Customer Keys API
Manage customer keys for your Astra organization.
DataStax Database Operations API
Use these DevOps APIs to manage Astra databases.
DataStax DevOps Access List API
View, create, modify, or delete the access list that restricts access to the DevOps API for an Astra organization.
DataStax Enterprise Operations API
DevOps APIs for your Astra enterprise.
DataStax Migrations API
Use the DevOps API to manage SSTables-based migrations.
DataStax Organization Operations API
DevOps APIs for your Astra organization.
DataStax PCU API
Use the DevOps API to manage provisioned capacity units for eligible organizations and databases.
DataStax Private Link API
Use the DevOps Private Link APIs to manage private link endpoints for your Astra databases.
DataStax Regions API
Get available regions by database type, user, or organization.
DataStax Roles API
Use the DevOps Roles APIs to manage roles in your Astra organization.
DataStax SCIM API
SCIM 2.0 endpoints for user and group provisioning and management.
DataStax Token API
Generate and revoke tokens that are used to authenticate DevOps API operations.
DataStax Users API
Use the DevOps Users APIs to manage users in your Astra organization.
DataStax VPC Peering API
Use the DevOps VPC Peering APIs to manage VPC peering for Managed Cluster (Classic) databases.
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Arazzo Workflows 2
Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
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ARAZZOProvision an Astra database and issue a scoped token
Creates a serverless Astra DB database, waits for it to become active, adds a keyspace, downloads the secure-connect bundle, and issues an application token scoped to the org ro...
ARAZZOMCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
datastax-mcp.yml
MCP SERVERSecurity Posture 2
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.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for DataStax — 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 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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