MCP in the Wild: CData's First 6 Weeks of Customer Adoption

CData reports rapid early adoption of its beta Model Context Protocol servers in the six weeks after launch, recording 294 downloads by 255 users across 139 companies and substantial growth toward the end of the period. Popular connectors included Google Sheets, NetSuite, QuickBooks, SQL Server, Salesforce, Excel, SAP, Google Analytics, and Power BI, reflecting demand across spreadsheets, enterprise applications, databases, and analytics systems. Telemetry indicated more than 26,000 queries, 2 million processed rows, 188 deployment nodes, and 57 actively used data sources, with Salesforce, SQL Server, Google Sheets, BigQuery, and Azure DevOps showing notable activity. The predominantly read-heavy workload, with roughly 20 reads for every write, is presented as evidence that users are employing AI assistants primarily for real-time data exploration, analysis, and insight generation rather than automation alone. CData argues that its SQL-capable, in-place connectivity provides broader analytical access than API-limited alternatives, and expects expanding production deployments, more varied sources, and new AI-native data architectures as its library of more than 350 connectors gains adoption.

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