Apache ShardingSphere
Apache ShardingSphere is an open-source ecosystem for distributed database systems providing data sharding, distributed transactions, and database governance. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other databases with transparent sharding capabilities.
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.
API Evangelist profiles Apache ShardingSphere the way a machine reads it — 72 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 ShardingSphere scores 48.2/100 (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.
How we profile Apache ShardingSphere
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Apache ShardingSphere. 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 ShardingSphere Cluster API
The Cluster API from Apache ShardingSphere — 1 operation(s) for cluster.
Apache ShardingSphere Databases API
The Databases API from Apache ShardingSphere — 2 operation(s) for databases.
Apache ShardingSphere DataSources API
The DataSources API from Apache ShardingSphere — 1 operation(s) for datasources.
Apache ShardingSphere ReadwriteSplitting API
The ReadwriteSplitting API from Apache ShardingSphere — 1 operation(s) for readwritesplitting.
Apache ShardingSphere ShardingRules API
The ShardingRules API from Apache ShardingSphere — 1 operation(s) for shardingrules.
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 Shardingsphere Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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 7
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.
Database Sharding
Horizontal database sharding with flexible sharding algorithms
Read-Write Splitting
Transparent primary/replica read-write splitting
Distributed Transactions
XA and BASE distributed transaction support
Data Encryption
Transparent data encryption at the SQL layer
Shadow Database
Shadow database for production traffic testing
DistSQL
SQL-based distributed database management language
Database Federation
Query across heterogeneous database instances
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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.
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 ShardingSphere API Rules
SPECTRALApache ShardingSphere API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 14
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.
ClusterStatus
JSON SCHEMADataSourceList
JSON SCHEMADataSourceRequest
JSON SCHEMADataSource
JSON SCHEMADatabaseList
JSON SCHEMADatabaseRequest
JSON SCHEMADatabase
JSON SCHEMAInstance
JSON SCHEMAReadwriteSplittingRuleList
JSON SCHEMAReadwriteSplittingRule
JSON SCHEMAShardingRuleList
JSON SCHEMAShardingRule
JSON SCHEMAShardingStrategy
JSON SCHEMAShardingTable
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 14 ·
JSON Structure 14
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.
Apache Shardingsphere Cluster Status Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApache Shardingsphere Data Source List Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApache Shardingsphere Data Source Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApache Shardingsphere Data Source Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApache Shardingsphere Database List Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApache Shardingsphere Database Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApache Shardingsphere Database Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApache Shardingsphere Instance Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApache Shardingsphere Readwrite Splitting Rule Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApache Shardingsphere Sharding Rule List Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApache Shardingsphere Sharding Rule Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApache Shardingsphere Sharding Strategy Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApache Shardingsphere Sharding Table Structure
JSON STRUCTUREScroll within the panel for all 14 ·
Examples 14
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.
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.
Use Cases 4
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.
Database Scale-Out
Horizontally scale relational databases without changing application code
Multi-Tenant Sharding
Shard data by tenant ID for SaaS applications
Read Scaling
Scale read traffic with primary/replica splitting
Data Migration
Online data migration between database clusters
Integrations 5
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
MySQL
MySQL-compatible sharding and proxy
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL protocol support for sharding
Apache ZooKeeper
Cluster coordination and configuration storage
Spring Boot
ShardingSphere Spring Boot starter for Java applications
Kubernetes
Kubernetes operator for cloud-native deployment
Resources
Every other property we hold for Apache ShardingSphere — 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.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
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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