Illustra
Illustra Information Technologies was an object-relational database company founded in 1992 by Michael Stonebraker, Gary Morgenthaler and several of Stonebraker's students to commercialize the Postgres research project. Its DataBlade extensibility modules let structured and unstructured multimedia data (text, geospatial, web content) be stored and indexed as true objects. NASA selected it in 1995 to store millions of satellite images. Informix Corporation acquired the company in 1996 and folded the object-relational engine and DataBlades into what became Informix Universal Server; that lineage passed to IBM and is now maintained by HCL Technologies. Illustra no longer exists as an independent entity and publishes no standalone website, developer portal, or API. This record was surfaced from a historical Trinity Ventures portfolio list; enrichment found no live API surface.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
Illustra is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.
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 — Illustra scores 6.8/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). 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
Illustra is in the network as a tracked entity. We haven't yet indexed a public API surface for it — when one is published, the artifacts, score, and agent-readiness read will appear here automatically. The source repository is where that profile is built.
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