universal-db-mcp

Why we included this project

Most database teams already have an AI assistant they like; the hard part is getting it to read their actual data. Universal DB MCP is a connector that closes that gap, letting clients like Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, and ChatGPT query MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis, and SQLite in plain language instead of hand-written SQL. The coverage is genuinely broad, 17 engines and more than 50 clients, but the safety defaults are what make it worth trying on real data: a read-only mode plus automatic masking of phone numbers and other sensitive fields. Schema metadata is cached with configurable TTLs and table relationships are inferred, which measurably sharpens text-to-SQL accuracy on large schemas. Because the same server can run over stdio, SSE, or streamable HTTP, you can attach it to a local desktop assistant or expose it to remote services without maintaining two separate integrations.