CData for Developers: Connect AI Developer Edition, Python SDK, and CLI Are Now Available

CData has introduced three developer tools intended to simplify connecting AI agents, applications, and workflows to enterprise data sources by managing authentication, schema discovery, normalization, rate limits, pagination, and other connector infrastructure. Connect AI Developer Edition is a free, MCP-focused tier supporting up to five connections, five users, and 500 monthly tool calls, enabling compatible clients such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, and LangChain to access hundreds of sources and configure connections through Query and Management MCP servers. The open-source, MIT-licensed Connect AI Python SDK provides PEP 249 DB-API 2.0 access to the Connect AI Query API for Python-based agents, ETL pipelines, notebooks, and internal tools, with compatibility for pandas and SQLAlchemy. The forthcoming CData CLI offers terminal-based driver installation, schema inspection, metadata discovery, and SQL querying through structured JSON output, although querying individual sources requires licensed CData JDBC drivers. All three offerings use CData’s shared connectivity and governance layer, with Developer Edition designed as an entry point that can be upgraded for production deployments.

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