Streaming · Schema
Stream Platform
Catalog record for a streaming platform — Kafka, Pulsar, Redpanda, NATS JetStream, Kinesis, Event Hubs, Pub/Sub, Confluent Cloud, etc. Describes the platform's identity, deployment model, supported protocols, and the URLs needed to operate against it.
StreamingReal TimeEvent StreamingChange Data CaptureStream ProcessingServer Sent EventsWebSocketgRPCGraphQL SubscriptionsKafkaPulsarKinesisFlink
Properties
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| id | string | Stable identifier for the platform (slug). |
| name | string | Display name of the platform. |
| vendor | string | Organization that maintains the platform (Apache Software Foundation, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Confluent, Redpanda Data, Synadia, StreamNative, etc.). |
| category | string | What kind of streaming component this is. |
| deployment_model | string | How customers consume the platform. |
| license | string | Source license (Apache-2.0, BSL, proprietary, etc.). |
| protocols | array | Wire protocols supported by the platform. |
| client_languages | array | Officially supported client SDK languages. |
| delivery_guarantees | array | |
| ordering | string | |
| schema_registry | boolean | Whether the platform integrates with a Schema Registry. |
| tiered_storage | boolean | |
| geo_replication | boolean | |
| kubernetes_native | boolean | Whether the platform is operated via Kubernetes CRDs (Strimzi, Pulsar Operator, etc.). |
| urls | object | |
| tags | array |
JSON Schema
{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/streaming/main/json-schema/streaming-stream-platform-schema.json",
"title": "Stream Platform",
"description": "Catalog record for a streaming platform — Kafka, Pulsar, Redpanda, NATS JetStream, Kinesis, Event Hubs, Pub/Sub, Confluent Cloud, etc. Describes the platform's identity, deployment model, supported protocols, and the URLs needed to operate against it.",
"type": "object",
"required": ["id", "name", "category"],
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Stable identifier for the platform (slug)."
},
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Display name of the platform."
},
"vendor": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Organization that maintains the platform (Apache Software Foundation, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Confluent, Redpanda Data, Synadia, StreamNative, etc.)."
},
"category": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"log-structured-broker",
"message-broker",
"managed-stream",
"pubsub",
"stream-processor",
"connector-framework",
"cdc",
"streaming-protocol"
],
"description": "What kind of streaming component this is."
},
"deployment_model": {
"type": "string",
"enum": ["self-hosted", "managed", "serverless", "hybrid", "spec"],
"description": "How customers consume the platform."
},
"license": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Source license (Apache-2.0, BSL, proprietary, etc.)."
},
"protocols": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"kafka-wire",
"pulsar-binary",
"amqp",
"mqtt",
"nats",
"stomp",
"grpc",
"http",
"http2",
"websocket",
"sse"
]
},
"description": "Wire protocols supported by the platform."
},
"client_languages": {
"type": "array",
"items": { "type": "string" },
"description": "Officially supported client SDK languages."
},
"delivery_guarantees": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"enum": ["at-most-once", "at-least-once", "exactly-once"]
}
},
"ordering": {
"type": "string",
"enum": ["per-partition", "per-key", "global", "best-effort"]
},
"schema_registry": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Whether the platform integrates with a Schema Registry."
},
"tiered_storage": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"geo_replication": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"kubernetes_native": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Whether the platform is operated via Kubernetes CRDs (Strimzi, Pulsar Operator, etc.)."
},
"urls": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"home": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
"docs": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
"github": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
"pricing": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
"status": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" }
}
},
"tags": {
"type": "array",
"items": { "type": "string" }
}
}
}