CData CLI
Use CData Drivers with Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot
CData CLI gives AI coding tools access to real enterprise schemas and metadata so they can generate more accurate integrations, validated queries, and production-ready applications.
Works with the AI coding tools you already use:
Built for AI agents in the terminal
Your AI coding agent already knows SQL. CData CLI + CData Connectors give it live access to Salesforce, NetSuite, ServiceNow, Workday, SAP, and hundreds of other business apps—without learning a new API, parsing a new schema, or filtering data in its own context window.
- Find connectors and install: One CLI tool to find and download hundreds of CData Connectors
- Create connections to the source: Create and manage data source connections from the CLI
- Searchable schema:
cdatacli metadata tables --connection sf-sandbox --table "%Opportunity%"—agents discover what they need without dumping the whole catalog - Compute at the data layer:
WHERE,JOIN,GROUP BY, aggregates—all run in the connector with push-down to source layer APIs. Your agent gets answers, not 20,000 rows to scan.
Choose your operating system and download CData CLI
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Getting Started
After you install CData CLI
Choose the data sources your agent needs. Each is a single .jar file.
cdatacli drivers search salesforce cdatacli drivers download --artifact-id salesforce-jdbc cdatacli drivers list
Connectors handle OAuth and credential storage. The agent never sees the secret.
cdatacli connection create --name salesforce-prod \ --driver Salesforce \ --connectionstring "AuthScheme=OAuth"
The agent does everything in SQL—including finding what's available.
-- Discover cdatacli metadata tables --connection salesforce-prod --table "%Opportunity%" cdatacli metadata columns --connection salesforce-prod --table Opportunity -- Query (driver pushes filters down to SOQL) SELECT Id, Name, Amount, CloseDate FROM Opportunity WHERE Amount > 1000000 AND CloseDate >= '2026-01-01' AND StageName = 'Closed Won' ORDER BY Amount DESC;
Choose your path to faster AI-assisted development
Whether you're building applications, automating agent workflows, or exploring business data, CData CLI gives AI coding tools and agents the enterprise context they need to work with greater precision.
Build data-connected applications faster
For application developers
Give AI the ability to explore schemas, validate SQL, and generate application code against the same CData Drivers you'll ship with. Build faster at design time, then deploy with a proven driver library in production.
Put AI agents to work on enterprise data
For agentic developers
You used to write VB.NET desktop apps or Python scripts to automate against Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday. Now you run multiple agents that do the same work concurrently. cdatacli + CData JDBC drivers run locally—no cloud dependency, no per-call API costs, no MCP server to maintain. Your agents speak SQL to your business apps directly.
Turn business processes into AI workflows
For business builders
Use AI to turn repeatable business processes into guided workflows that gather live data, follow your playbooks, and produce reusable outputs. CData CLI gives tools like Claude Code the ability to connect to systems like Salesforce, NetSuite, databases, and support desks, so analysis is grounded in real business context—not copy-pasted exports or generic chat responses. CTA: See how Claude Code becomes a business advisor
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