# NATS Key-Value Store API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-kv-api/  
**Provider:** NATS — https://apis.io/providers/nats/  
**Documentation:** https://docs.nats.io/nats-concepts/jetstream/key-value-store

NATS Key-Value Store API is one of 15 APIs that [NATS](https://apis.io/providers/nats/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include JetStream, Key-Value, and Storage. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, and 1 JSON Schema.

The NATS Key-Value Store API is a JetStream-backed abstraction that provides immediately consistent, persistent associative array semantics. Clients can create buckets, get, put, delete, and watch keys, and receive real-time change notifications. Buckets are implemented as JetStream streams with the KV_ prefix.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.nats.io/nats-concepts/jetstream/key-value-store
- **Reference** — https://docs.nats.io/using-nats/developer/develop_jetstream/kv
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nats/refs/heads/main/properties/nats-kv-schema.json

## Other NATS APIs (12)

- [NATS Monitoring API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-monitoring-api/)
- [NATS Messaging API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-messaging-api/)
- [NATS JetStream Management API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-jetstream-api/)
- [NATS Object Store API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-object-store-api/)
- [NATS Accounts API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-accounts-api/)
- [NATS Clustering API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-clustering-api/)
- [NATS Connections API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-connections-api/)
- [NATS Gateways API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-gateways-api/)
- [NATS Health API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-health-api/)
- [NATS JetStream API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-jetstream-api/)
- [NATS Leaf Nodes API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-leaf-nodes-api/)
- [NATS Routes API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-routes-api/)

## Tags

JetStream, Key-Value, Storage

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