MCP Toolbox for Databases

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Google LLC · mcp-toolbox.dev · who's behind it

MCP Toolbox for Databases is Google's open-source MCP server for more than 30 data sources, among them BigQuery, AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, Spanner and PostgreSQL. It runs as a binary or container with prebuilt or custom tools from tools.yaml.

Best for Agents and coding assistants that need one server across Google Cloud data services and common databases, or production agents with curated SQL tools.

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Assessment. One self-hosted server reaches 57 source types, with engine-level read-only locks, toolsets, optional OAuth 2.1 and fortnightly semver releases under Apache-2.0. Prebuilt sets list 9 to 41 tools, origin and host checks default to any, and 432 issues and pull requests are open.

Facts

Access how an agent reaches and pays for it

Transport: stdio, Streamable HTTP
Auth: OAuth or key
Pricing: Free · Free · OSS
x402: No
Licence: Apache-2.0
Tools exposed: 29
Capabilities: db.sql db.document db.admin

Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases

Packages: npm @toolbox-sdk/server
pypi toolbox-core
npm @toolbox-sdk/core
MCP registry: io.github.googleapis/mcp-toolbox
Source: github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox
Docs: mcp-toolbox.dev/
llms.txt: published
Last release: 2026-11-05
GitHub stars: 17k

From our research 5 facts checked against the vendor's pages

Surface listed: The Toolbox server (binary, container and @toolbox-sdk/server), read from a shallow clone of googleapis/mcp-toolbox (README, CHANGELOG, SECURITY.md, prebuilt configs, docs and source), mcp-toolbox.dev and the MCP registry on 6 November 2026. Nothing was installed or run
Two ways to use it: Prebuilt generic tools (list_tables, execute_sql and the like) for coding agents, or custom tools with fixed SQL, parameters and authorised parameters for production agents
Sources: Google Cloud (BigQuery, AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Bigtable, Firestore, Dataplex, Looker, Cloud Storage and more) and others such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Neo4j, Redis, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch and SQLite
Observability: OpenTelemetry traces and metrics, exported only when --telemetry-otlp or --telemetry-gcp is set
Security options: MCP authorisation as an OAuth 2.1 resource server, authorised parameters bound to user claims, read-only mode, Model Armor screening, --allowed-hosts and --allowed-origins

Facts verified 6 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown

Strengths

57 source types and 39 prebuilt configurations, from BigQuery and AlloyDB to PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB and Snowflake
Read-only mode locks the database session, hides write tools and sets readOnlyHint
Custom tools in tools.yaml fix SQL and bind parameters to the signed-in user's claims
Optional MCP authorisation as an OAuth 2.1 resource server with protected-resource metadata
v1.16.0 on 5 November 2026 after eight releases in 90 days, in the MCP registry

Weaknesses

--allowed-origins and --allowed-hosts default to *, which the docs call unsafe
Prebuilt PostgreSQL set lists 29 tools and AlloyDB 41 unless a toolset is chosen
432 open issues and pull requests
Some prebuilt descriptions are a single line with no guidance on when not to use the tool

Before you call it notes for agents

Load one toolset (such as data) rather than the whole prebuilt set to keep context small
Turn on the source's read-only mode for exploration; write tools then disappear from tools/list
Start the HTTP server with --allowed-hosts and --allowed-origins set; the defaults accept any
Prefer custom tools with fixed SQL over execute_sql for production agents

Who's behind it provenance 50/100

Legal entity namedGoogle LLC20/20
Domain agemcp-toolbox.dev, no registry record we could read0/15
Endpoint on the vendor's domainmcp-toolbox.dev15/15
Terms of servicenot found0/10
Privacy policynot found0/10
Status pagenot found0/10
Changelogpublished10/10
security.txtnot found0/10
People named5 named with their role, none with a public profile7/10
Support routehelp pages, a community5/5

Terms and privacy, as read

Terms of service none to read

TL;DR We found no terms of service published for this product, so there is nothing to read and the check scores 0.

Privacy policy none to read

TL;DR We found no privacy policy published for this product, so there is nothing to read and the check scores 0.

A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.

SECURITY.md routes reports to g.co/vulnz with a five-working-day response and discloses through GitHub Security Advisories.

mcp-toolbox.dev/robots.txt allows all crawlers and serves llms.txt. Its registration date wasn't found through RDAP.

No terms or privacy policy specific to Toolbox, which sends nothing to Google unless GCP telemetry export or a Google source is configured.

Checked 2026-11-06 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.

Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help

Key people

Larry PageCo-founder, Google, left executive roles in December 2019 and sits on Alphabet's board
Sergey BrinCo-founder, Google, left executive roles in 2019 and sits on Alphabet's board
Sundar PichaiCEO, Google and Alphabet
Thomas KurianCEO, Google Cloud
Demis HassabisCo-founder and CEO, Google DeepMind

Google Cloud on LinkedIn @Google GitHub

Ownership Part of Alphabet Inc.

Researched 6 November 2026 from public pages. MCP Toolbox for Databases is published by Google in the googleapis GitHub organisation (source files carry Copyright Google LLC). The company-level people are copied from data/humans/google-secret-manager.json (checked 28 October 2026) with their sources. No product lead is named in the repository or on mcp-toolbox.dev, so none is added. Google is part of Alphabet, so no investors are listed. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.

Sources (7)

Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-07 15:59 UTC

github googleapis/mcp-toolbox v1.16.0, released 2026-11-05
npm @toolbox-sdk/core 1.2.0
npm @toolbox-sdk/server 1.16.0
pypi toolbox-core 1.4.0, released 2026-09-01
GitHub stars 17k
npm downloads a week 38k
PyPI downloads a week 81k
security.txt none · 1 hour ago
llms.txt answers · 2 hours ago

Pages we watch

Page	Kind	Last checked	Last changed
raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/main/CHANG…	changelog	3 hours ago · 200	no change seen

Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/mcp-toolbox-databases.json

Notable

Renamed from Gen AI Toolbox for Databases; the repository moved from googleapis/genai-toolbox to googleapis/mcp-toolbox and the old registry entry io.github.googleapis/genai-toolbox stops at 0.31.0 (README; https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=googleapis)
57 source types and 39 prebuilt configurations; the PostgreSQL prebuilt set has 29 tools in five toolsets (data, monitor, health, view-config and replication), BigQuery 9, Cloud Storage 14 and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL 41 (internal/prebuiltconfigs/tools)
Read-only protection in three layers, engine-level session locks, suppression of write tools and readOnlyHint annotations set from the source's read-only state (docs/en/documentation/configuration/security/read-only.md)
v1.16.0 on 5 November 2026, with eight minor and patch releases since 27 August under release-please and a semver policy covering the CLI, manifests and prebuilt toolsets (CHANGELOG.md)
Security reports go to Google's g.co/vulnz with a five-working-day response and GitHub Security Advisories for disclosure (SECURITY.md)
SDKs in Python (toolbox-core 1.4.0), JavaScript (@toolbox-sdk/core 1.2.0), Go and Java, with integrations for ADK, LangChain and LlamaIndex (README)

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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run

Assessed on 6 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence medium. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.

Category	Weight this run	Score	Points
Reliabilitychecked 6 November 2026	16%20	80	16.0
Scored as local software the owner runs. A Go binary, a container in Artifact Registry and @toolbox-sdk/server on npm, with install paths per platform (20). Tests, lint, conformance and nightly tier-report workflows in the repository; the pass state wasn't read (15). 432 open issues and pull requests on a repository with 16,818 stars and releases every two weeks, triaged with labels, though the backlog is large (15). Semantic versioning with a published policy, release-please CHANGELOG and an UPGRADING.md (15). 1.x since well before this check, v1.16.0 now (15). 20 + 15 + 15 + 15 + 15 = 80.
Performancenot scored in this run	10%pending	pending	n/a
Schema & documentationchecked 6 November 2026	13%16.2	85	13.8
Every tool's parameters are typed in tools.yaml and published as JSON Schema over MCP (25). mcp-toolbox.dev serves llms.txt (10). Prebuilt descriptions vary from one line ("Use this tool to execute a single SQL statement.") to detailed, and few say when not to use a tool (12). Typed parameters with required flags; execute_sql takes free SQL (12). Many examples, samples and codelabs; error responses are thinly documented (11). Semver, a dated CHANGELOG and versioned docs (15). 25 + 10 + 12 + 12 + 11 + 15 = 85.
Agent ergonomicschecked 6 November 2026	13%16.2	82	13.3
The PostgreSQL prebuilt set lists 29 tools (15), split into five toolsets a client can load one at a time, and write tools disappear in read-only mode (plus 8). Results are bounded per tool, some prebuilt tools take limits, and BigQuery tools compact empty schema fields (14). Errors come back as tool errors; paths are sanitised from file errors since 1.15.0 (12). readOnlyHint and destructiveHint are set per tool and switch with the source's read-only state (18). Prebuilt sets need only environment variables, and SDKs exist in Python, JavaScript, Go and Java (15). 23 + 14 + 12 + 18 + 15 = 82.
Security & authchecked 6 November 2026	14%17.5	75	13.1
Source credentials stay in Toolbox, Google sources use IAM, and optional MCP authorisation validates OAuth 2.1 JWTs with required scopes. --allowed-origins and --allowed-hosts default to *, which the CLI docs themselves call unsafe even on localhost, though the default bind is 127.0.0.1 (20). Read-only mode is enforced at the engine, write tools are suppressed, and custom tools can fix SQL and bind parameters to the signed-in user (18). The security docs cover prompt injection and screening through Model Armor (12). OpenTelemetry traces and metrics per call when exported (10). Google's vulnerability intake with a stated response time and GitHub advisories (15). 20 + 18 + 12 + 10 + 15 = 75.
Payments & pricingchecked 6 November 2026	10%12.5	60	7.5
Free, self-hosted, nothing to buy, so 20 + 20 + 20. No payment protocol (0).
Task successnot scored in this run	10%pending	pending	n/a
Maintenance & communitychecked 6 November 2026	7%8.8	95	8.3
v1.16.0 on 5 November 2026, one day before this check (30). Eight releases from v1.10.0 (27 August) to v1.16.0 in the 90 days (20). Pull requests merge daily and new tools land in each fortnightly release, though 432 issues and pull requests are open (20). io.github.googleapis/mcp-toolbox is in the official registry at 1.16.0 (15). Release automation, lint, tests and conformance workflows (10). 30 + 20 + 20 + 15 + 10 = 95.
Transparency & trusteditorial 77, provenance 50checked 6 November 2026	7%8.8	64	5.6
Apache-2.0 (30). A self-hosted server; data goes only to the configured sources and to a telemetry exporter if one is set. There is no data-handling statement of its own (15). A versioning policy defining breaking changes, UPGRADING.md and a notice for the repository rename; prebuilt tool removals are listed in the changelog (16). Telemetry is off unless --telemetry-otlp or --telemetry-gcp is set, and the docs say so (16). 30 + 15 + 16 + 16 = 77.
Negative events	≤15	None recorded	0
Total			77.7 · BB

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6 November 2026

Graded 77.7 BB methodology v0.7

Fix list 16 items, the biggest gain first

Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on MCP Toolbox for Databases. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.

What we couldn't check

unchecked: whether the tests workflow passes on the default branch.
Our reader fetched https://pypi.org/pypi/toolbox-core/json once on 6 November, a path PyPI's robots.txt disallows. The version it gave (1.4.0) was re-read from the allowed release feed https://pypi.org/rss/project/toolbox-core/releases.xml, which is the source used.
unchecked: GA status per source; the minor-version policy mentions beta functions, and per-source stability labels weren't read.

Sources 9

repository and README github.com · seen 2026-11-06
CHANGELOG github.com · seen 2026-11-06
SECURITY.md github.com · seen 2026-11-06
read-only security docs github.com · seen 2026-11-06
CLI reference github.com · seen 2026-11-06
MCP authorisation docs github.com · seen 2026-11-06
docs site llms.txt mcp-toolbox.dev · seen 2026-11-06
toolbox-core release feed pypi.org · seen 2026-11-06
MCP registry entries registry.modelcontextprotocol.io · seen 2026-11-06

Probe metrics

Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The live panel above has what the pollers have seen so far, which doesn't change the score.

Pricing & changes

Free Free · OSS Free and Apache-2.0, run on your own machine or your own Cloud Run service. Google Cloud sources bill for their own usage (BigQuery queries, Cloud SQL instances); Toolbox itself has no price.

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2026-11-05Latest release

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npx @toolbox-sdk/server --prebuilt postgres --stdio

MCP client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "postgres": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@toolbox-sdk/server",
        "--prebuilt",
        "postgres",
        "--stdio"
      ],
      "command": "npx",
      "env": {
        "POSTGRES_DATABASE": "mydb",
        "POSTGRES_HOST": "localhost",
        "POSTGRES_PASSWORD": "password",
        "POSTGRES_USER": "user"
      }
    }
  }
}

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Who's behind it provenance 50/100

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Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help

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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run

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