# Database

> An index and topic collection covering managed databases and database-as-a-service offerings exposing APIs. Database APIs enable developers to provision, configure, query, migrate, and scale relational, document, key-value, wide-column, vector, graph, time-series, and analytical data stores throu...

This is the **Database** topic area of [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) — a network of focused knowledge bases drawn from 16 years of independent API research by Kin Lane. Browse all areas at https://apievangelist.com/areas/.

## Services & Tools
- [Aerospike](https://providers.apis.io/providers/aerospike/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/aerospike)
- [Amazon DynamoDB](https://providers.apis.io/providers/amazon-dynamodb/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/amazon-dynamodb)
- [Amazon Neptune](https://providers.apis.io/providers/amazon-neptune/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/amazon-neptune)
- [Amazon QLDB](https://providers.apis.io/providers/amazon-qldb/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/amazon-qldb)
- [Amazon Redshift](https://providers.apis.io/providers/amazon-redshift/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/amazon-redshift)
- [Amazon Timestream](https://providers.apis.io/providers/amazon-timestream/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/amazon-timestream)
- [Apache Cassandra](https://providers.apis.io/providers/cassandra/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/cassandra)
- [Apache CouchDB](https://providers.apis.io/providers/apache-couchdb/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/apache-couchdb)
- [Apache Druid](https://providers.apis.io/providers/apache-druid/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/apache-druid)
- [Apache HBase](https://providers.apis.io/providers/apache-hbase/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/apache-hbase)
- [Apache Pinot](https://providers.apis.io/providers/apache-pinot/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/apache-pinot)
- [Appwrite](https://providers.apis.io/providers/appwrite/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/appwrite)
- [Azure Cosmos DB](https://providers.apis.io/providers/azure-cosmos-db/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/azure-cosmos-db)
- [ClickHouse](https://providers.apis.io/providers/clickhouse/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/clickhouse)
- [CockroachDB](https://providers.apis.io/providers/cockroachdb/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/cockroachdb)
- [Convex](https://providers.apis.io/providers/convex/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/convex)
- [Couchbase](https://providers.apis.io/providers/couchbase/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/couchbase)
- [Databricks](https://providers.apis.io/providers/databricks/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/databricks)
- [Dragonfly](https://providers.apis.io/providers/dragonfly/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/dragonfly)
- [DuckDB](https://providers.apis.io/providers/duckdb/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/duckdb)
- [Elasticsearch](https://providers.apis.io/providers/elasticsearch/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/elasticsearch)
- [Fauna](https://providers.apis.io/providers/fauna/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/fauna)
- [Firebolt](https://providers.apis.io/providers/firebolt/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/firebolt)
- [Google BigQuery](https://providers.apis.io/providers/google-bigquery/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/google-bigquery)
- [Google Cloud Bigtable](https://providers.apis.io/providers/google-cloud-bigtable/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/google-cloud-bigtable)
- [Google Cloud Firestore](https://providers.apis.io/providers/google-cloud-firestore/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/google-cloud-firestore)
- [Google Cloud Spanner](https://providers.apis.io/providers/google-cloud-spanner/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/google-cloud-spanner)
- [Google Cloud SQL](https://providers.apis.io/providers/google-cloud-sql/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/google-cloud-sql)
- [IBM Db2](https://providers.apis.io/providers/ibm-db2/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/ibm-db2)
- [InfluxDB](https://providers.apis.io/providers/influxdb/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/influxdb)
- [Marqo](https://providers.apis.io/providers/marqo/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/marqo)
- [Materialize](https://providers.apis.io/providers/materialize/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/materialize)
- [Microsoft Azure PostgreSQL](https://providers.apis.io/providers/microsoft-azure-postgresql/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/microsoft-azure-postgresql)
- [Microsoft Azure SQL Database](https://providers.apis.io/providers/microsoft-azure-sql-database/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/microsoft-azure-sql-database)
- [Milvus](https://providers.apis.io/providers/milvus/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/milvus)
- [MongoDB Atlas](https://providers.apis.io/providers/mongodb-atlas/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/mongodb-atlas)
- [MotherDuck](https://providers.apis.io/providers/motherduck/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/motherduck)
- [Neo4j](https://providers.apis.io/providers/neo4j/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/neo4j)
- [Neon](https://providers.apis.io/providers/neon/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/neon)
- [Oracle Database](https://providers.apis.io/providers/oracle-database/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/oracle-database)
- [Pinecone](https://providers.apis.io/providers/pinecone/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/pinecone)
- [PlanetScale](https://providers.apis.io/providers/planetscale/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/planetscale)
- [PostgreSQL](https://providers.apis.io/providers/postgresql/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/postgresql)
- [Prisma](https://providers.apis.io/providers/prisma/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/prisma)
- [Qdrant](https://providers.apis.io/providers/qdrant/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/qdrant)
- [QuestDB](https://providers.apis.io/providers/questdb/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/questdb)
- [Render](https://providers.apis.io/providers/render/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/render)
- [RethinkDB](https://providers.apis.io/providers/rethinkdb/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/rethinkdb)
- [SAP HANA](https://providers.apis.io/providers/sap-hana/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/sap-hana)
- [SingleStore](https://providers.apis.io/providers/singlestore/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/singlestore)
- [Snowflake](https://providers.apis.io/providers/snowflake/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/snowflake)
- [Stardog](https://providers.apis.io/providers/stardog/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/stardog)
- [Supabase](https://providers.apis.io/providers/supabase/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/supabase)
- [TiDB](https://providers.apis.io/providers/tidb/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/tidb)
- [TimescaleDB](https://providers.apis.io/providers/timescaledb/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/timescaledb)
- [Tinybird](https://providers.apis.io/providers/tinybird/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/tinybird)
- [Upstash](https://providers.apis.io/providers/upstash/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/upstash)
- [Vespa](https://providers.apis.io/providers/vespa/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/vespa)
- [Vitess](https://providers.apis.io/providers/vitess/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/vitess)
- [Weaviate](https://providers.apis.io/providers/weaviate/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/weaviate)
- [YugabyteDB](https://providers.apis.io/providers/yugabytedb/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/yugabytedb)
- [Zilliz](https://providers.apis.io/providers/zilliz/) (repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/zilliz)

## Common Features
- **Programmatic Database Provisioning**: Database APIs let teams create, configure, resize, and tear down database instances on demand without filing tickets or running infrastructure scripts, making databases first-class deployable resources.
- **Branching and Forking**: Modern serverless database platforms like Neon, PlanetScale, and Supabase expose branching APIs that let developers create isolated copies of a production database for development, testing, and pull request previews.
- **HTTP and SQL-over-HTTP Query Interfaces**: Databases like Neon, Supabase, PlanetScale, and Cloudflare D1 expose SQL execution through HTTPS endpoints, enabling stateless query access from serverless functions and edge runtimes without persistent TCP connections.
- **Vector Search and Embeddings**: Vector databases like Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, and Milvus expose APIs for storing high-dimensional embeddings and running nearest-neighbor similarity search, powering retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search.
- **Schema Migration and Versioning**: Database platforms provide APIs for managing schema migrations, deploy requests, and zero-downtime schema changes, integrating database evolution into CI/CD pipelines.
- **Analytical Query and Warehouse APIs**: Cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, and ClickHouse expose REST and SQL APIs for executing analytical queries, managing warehouses, and orchestrating data pipelines at petabyte scale.
- **Multi-Region Replication and Edge Reads**: Distributed and serverless databases expose APIs for configuring read replicas, regional failover, and edge-local reads, reducing latency for globally distributed applications.
- **Backups, Snapshots, and Point-in-Time Recovery**: Managed database APIs provide programmatic control over backups, snapshots, restore points, and point-in-time recovery, treating data protection as code rather than a manual operations process.

## Use Cases
- **Serverless Application Backends**: Developers use serverless database APIs from Neon, Supabase, Fauna, Convex, and Cloudflare D1 to back serverless functions and edge applications without managing connection pools or persistent infrastructure.
- **Database-per-Tenant Provisioning**: SaaS platforms use database provisioning APIs to spin up isolated database instances or branches per customer, providing strong tenant isolation and per-tenant backup, recovery, and scaling.
- **Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)**: AI applications use vector database APIs from Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, and pgvector-backed services to index document embeddings and retrieve semantically relevant context for LLM prompts.
- **Real-Time Analytics and Observability**: Time-series and columnar APIs from ClickHouse, InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, QuestDB, and Tinybird power real-time dashboards, observability platforms, and user-facing analytics on high-volume event streams.
- **Data Warehouse Integration and ELT**: Analytics and data teams use APIs from Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, and Databricks to load data, run transformations, manage warehouses, and integrate with dbt, Fivetran, and orchestration tooling.
- **Schema Migrations in CI/CD**: Teams use deploy-request and migration APIs from PlanetScale, Neon, and Supabase to gate schema changes through pull requests, run them in branches, and apply them safely to production.
- **Graph Workloads and Knowledge Graphs**: Applications use graph database APIs from Neo4j, Stardog, and Amazon Neptune to model relationships, run path and traversal queries, and back knowledge graphs and recommendation engines.
- **Edge and Mobile Data Sync**: Edge databases like Cloudflare D1, Convex, and Supabase expose APIs that synchronize state between edge runtimes, mobile clients, and central data stores with built-in conflict resolution.

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