CData API Server vs. CData Connect vs. CData Connect AI vs. dbForge Query Builder for SQL Server Comparison Chart

The CData API Server is the fastest and easiest way to build and deploy data driven APIs. With API Server users can create APIs that deliver application back–ends for internal applications, facilitate mobile development projects, expose data as a service, and deploy enterprise–class microservices. The API Server is an installed application that includes everything needed to create, run, manage and secure APIs - all without custom development. It enables you to create and deliver self-contained API endpoints, on-premise or to the cloud - that connect to any application or database and translate REST, JSON, and OData API calls to your configured IT resources. Complete with API critical features like access-control, data security, monitoring, and management, API server is a powerful tool to help modernize your back-end infrastructure. Download a 30-day free trial of CData API Server or learn more at: https://www.cdata.com/apiserver/

CData’s AI offering is centered on Connect AI and associated AI-driven connectivity capabilities, which provide live, governed access to enterprise data without moving it off source systems. Connect AI is built as a managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform that lets AI assistants, agents, copilots, and embedded AI applications directly query over 300 data sources, such as CRM, ERP, databases, APIs, with a full understanding of data semantics and relationships. It enforces source system authentication, respects existing role-based permissions, and ensures that AI actions (reads and writes) follow governance and audit rules. The system supports query pushdown, parallel paging, bulk read/write operations, streaming mode for large datasets, and cross-source reasoning via a unified semantic layer. In addition, CData’s “Talk to your Data” engine integrates with its Virtuality product to allow conversational access to BI insights and reports.