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Apache Geode

Apache Geode is an in-memory data management platform that provides real-time, consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed cloud architectures. It pools memory, CPU, network resources, and local disk storage across multiple processes, offering a REST API for data access, OQL queries, function execution, and cluster management.

agent aware

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Apache Geode the way a machine reads it — 64 machine-readable artifacts across 5 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Apache Geode scores 52.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 52.3/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Apache Geode

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Apache Geode. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 5

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Apache Geode Java Client API

Java API for cache operations, continuous queries, function execution, and data serialization in Apache Geode clusters.

Apache Geode Administration API

The Administration API from Apache Geode — 2 operation(s) for administration.

Apache Geode Functions API

The Functions API from Apache Geode — 2 operation(s) for functions.

Apache Geode Queries API

The Queries API from Apache Geode — 2 operation(s) for queries.

Apache Geode Regions API

The Regions API from Apache Geode — 4 operation(s) for regions.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Apache Geode REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Apache Geode Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 10

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

In-Memory Data Grid

Pool memory across distributed nodes for consistent sub-millisecond data access at scale.

REST Data API

HTTP REST API for language-agnostic CRUD operations on Geode regions using JSON.

OQL Query Language

SQL-like Object Query Language for executing complex queries against in-memory data.

Continuous Queries

Register interest in data changes meeting OQL criteria for real-time event notification.

Server-Side Functions

Deploy and execute Java functions on the cluster nodes to co-locate compute with data.

ACID Transactions

Full ACID transaction support for consistent multi-region data operations.

WAN Replication

Asynchronous and synchronous WAN gateway replication for geo-distributed data consistency.

Eviction and Expiration

Configurable eviction policies (LRU, heap, disk) and TTL-based entry expiration.

Persistence

Disk persistence option for data recovery after restart without network re-loading.

Native Clients

High-performance C++ and .NET native client libraries for non-JVM applications.

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Apache Geode Rest Context

11 classes · 11 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Apache Geode API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Apache Geode API Rules

14 rules · 4 errors · 8 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 10

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

FunctionListResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FunctionResult

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

KeyListResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QueryInfo

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QueryListResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QueryResult

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RegionData

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RegionInfo

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RegionListResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServerListResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 10

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Geode Rest Function Result Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Geode Rest Key List Response Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Geode Rest Query Info Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Geode Rest Query List Response Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Geode Rest Query Result Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Geode Rest Region Data Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Geode Rest Region Info Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Geode Rest Region List Response Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Geode Rest Server List Response Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 10

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Apache Geode Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Apache Geode Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Apache Geode Agentic Access

14 operations · 5 acting

14 operations · 5 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 5

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Session Caching

Replace Redis or Memcached with Geode for distributed session caching with ACID guarantees.

Real-Time Analytics

Perform OQL queries on in-flight event data for real-time analytical processing.

Financial Transaction Processing

Low-latency transaction processing with ACID guarantees for financial trading and payments.

Microservices Shared State

Share state between microservices with consistent in-memory data across distributed nodes.

IoT Data Aggregation

Aggregate and query high-velocity IoT telemetry data in memory for real-time responses.

Integrations 4

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Apache Spark

Geode-Spark connector for using Geode regions as Spark RDD/DataFrame data sources.

Spring Data Geode

Spring Data integration for repository-based data access and caching annotations.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes operator for deploying and managing Geode clusters on Kubernetes.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Cloud Foundry service broker for provisioning Geode instances as managed services.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Apache Geode — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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