GaussDB is a distributed relational database. GaussDB supports distributed transactions and intra-city deployment across AZs for zero data loss, storage for petabytes of data, and scale-out to more than 1,000 nodes. It is highly available, secure, and scalable and provides services including quick deployment, backup, restoration, monitoring, and alarm reporting for enterprises.

This document describes how to use application programming interfaces (APIs) to perform operations on instances, such as creating, deleting, querying and scaling out instances. For operation details, see API Overview.