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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.

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 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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 48.2/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 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 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.

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 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.

Apache Shardingsphere Context

14 classes · 27 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 ShardingSphere API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Apache ShardingSphere API Rules

13 rules · 5 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON 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

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DataSourceList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DataSourceRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DataSource

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DatabaseList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DatabaseRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Database

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Instance

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReadwriteSplittingRuleList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReadwriteSplittingRule

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ShardingRuleList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ShardingRule

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ShardingStrategy

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ShardingTable

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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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.

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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.

Apache Shardingsphere Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Apache Shardingsphere 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 Shardingsphere Agentic Access

9 operations · 3 acting

9 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

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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