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Databento Equities Basic was deprecated on January 13, 2025. Its datasets are now offered individually through our Databento US Equities Service. Existing users can access the legacy DBEQ.BASIC feed until March 1, 2025.

Databento US Equities Basic is a bundle of proprietary market data feeds from three US equities exchanges: NYSE Texas, NYSE National, and IEX.

Details for each underlying dataset are available on the following pages:

Venues

Databento US Equities bundles include data from multiple venues. The publisher_id field on every record can be used to identify the venue associated with the event. The values corresponding to these IDs are available through the metadata.list_publishers endpoint.

See also
Examples - US equity options volume by venue

Symbology

The constituent feeds of Databento US Equities use different symbol suffixes and different numerical IDs to refer to instruments. This page on ticker symbol conventions from Nasdaq outlines the four most common suffix patterns used for US equities, with the "Nasdaq Integrated Platform Suffix" being the most common, and the "CMS Suffix" used by NYSE-owned feeds such as NYSE Texas.

Databento US Equities bundles standardize on using the "Nasdaq Integrated Platform Suffix" for the raw symbol, regardless of which suffix is originally used by the venue. However, in the definition schema, the raw_symbol field will be based on the original value from the venue.

Additionally, Databento US Equities bundles use internally-assigned instrument IDs. These IDs are assigned strictly from the raw symbol string; they do not take into account corporate actions like renames, relistings, or mergers. The upstream-publisher-assigned instrument IDs are available in the raw_instrument_id field of the definition schema.