CData Connect AI vs. CData Python Connectors vs. Codd AI vs. OpenAccess SDK Comparison Chart

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.

Codd AI solves one of the biggest problems in analytics: making data truly business-ready. Instead of teams spending weeks manually mapping schemas, building models, and defining metrics, Codd uses generative AI to automatically create a context-aware semantic layer that aligns technical data with your business language. That means business users can ask questions in plain English and get accurate, governed answers instantly—through BI tools, conversational AI, or any endpoint. With governance and auditability built in, Codd makes analytics faster, clearer, and more trustworthy. Codd AI ingests both technical metadata from your database, as well as business rules and logic to use AI to auto-generate the most comprehensive semantic layer. This semantic layer is embedded in an intelligent query agent to power natural language (NLP) conversational analytics or power traditional BI tools