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TimescaleDB / Tiger Data

TimescaleDB (now part of Tiger Data) is a PostgreSQL-native time-series database featuring hypertables, columnstore (Hypercore), continuous aggregates, retention policies and hyperfunctions. The managed Tiger Cloud platform exposes a public REST API for managing projects, services, VPCs, peering and read replicas, while the database itself is consumed via standard PostgreSQL wire protocol.

agent aware

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 TimescaleDB / Tiger Data the way a machine reads it — 43 machine-readable artifacts across 6 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 — TimescaleDB / Tiger Data scores 51.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). 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 — 51.3/100 · developing
Contract Quality 13.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 11.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 TimescaleDB / Tiger Data

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for TimescaleDB / Tiger Data. 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 6

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.

TimescaleDB PostgreSQL Wire Interface

The database itself is accessed via the PostgreSQL wire protocol (port 5432), with TimescaleDB SQL functions for hypertable management, compression, continuous aggregates and hy...

TimescaleDB / Tiger Data Auth API

Authentication and authorization information.

TimescaleDB / Tiger Data Read Replica Sets API

The Read Replica Sets API from TimescaleDB / Tiger Data — 6 operation(s) for read replica sets.

TimescaleDB / Tiger Data Services API

Manage services, read replicas, and their associated actions.

TimescaleDB / Tiger Data VPCs API

Manage VPCs and their peering connections.

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).

Tiger Cloud API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

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.

Timescaledb Rate Limits

4 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.

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

TimescaleDB / Tiger Data API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 27

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AuthInfo

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConnectionPooler

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeployStatus

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Endpoint

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EnvironmentTag

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Error

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ForkServiceCreate

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ForkSpec

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ForkStrategy

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HAReplica

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Peering

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PeeringCreate

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReadReplicaSet

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReadReplicaSetCreate

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResizeInput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Service

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceCreate

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceLogEntry

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceLogs

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceVPCInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SetEnvironmentInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SetHAReplicaInput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdatePasswordInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VPC

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VPCCreate

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VPCRename

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Scroll within the panel for all 27 ·

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Timescaledb Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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.

Timescaledb Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Timescaledb Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Timescaledb Trust Center

SOC 2, 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.

Timescaledb Agentic Access

35 operations · 26 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

35 operations · 26 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for TimescaleDB / Tiger Data — 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

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

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