Markets · bedrock market · provisional
Databases (PostgreSQL wire)
Shape market (the postgresql wire protocol re-served; convergence by imitation, graded by declared degree). The Kin Score Market layer reads each provider in its market:
who it integrates with, how deep those integrations go, and where the market publishes its own structure.
Methodology.
29providers measured
20 (69.0%)declare their own
3 (10.3%)covered by others only
1 (3.4%)distribution only (sell through, not integrations)
5 (17.2%)undeclared
23declare compatibility (report only, not weighted)
0in-market workflows shown
Provisional. Provisional and unweighted: the Market layer is not part of the composite or agent readiness. Leader lists are read within a position, never as one ranking. A provider that declares nothing we can
read is shown as undeclared, with no number: we never infer integrations.
Where this market publishes its structure
- Providers' own PostgreSQL compatibility pages and feature lists (fetched, saved under evidence/compatibility/) machine-readable
- Providers' own contracts naming the PostgreSQL wire protocol (info/tags/path descriptions) machine-readable
- AWS, Azure and Google Cloud marketplace listings (distribution, reported beside) machine-readable
- JS-rendered pages (SingleStore, Upstash, VAST, Materialize docs home) not machine-readable: client-rendered; no text without a browser
- Conformance test running the PostgreSQL regression suite / libpq clients against each endpoint not machine-readable: no register exists; not built
Own = declares at least one integration itself; covered = visible only because an aggregator, standards body, regulator or partner contract names it; distribution-only = listed only on cloud marketplaces it sells through, a channel reported beside, never counted as its own declared integrations; undeclared = nothing we can read, so no number; declares_compatibility = providers with a `compatible` shape vote, report only (kin, 2026-10-13): never counted as own, never in depth or position.
Taxonomy how this market maps onto apis.io
Derived 2026-10-23 from the 29 providers in this market we could resolve in the
catalog. The percentage is the share of those providers carrying each one; it describes the market, not the tag or industry. Tag groups have no page of their own yet, so they are listed unlinked.
| Tags | Database 90%, PostgreSQL 55%, SQL 41%, Open Source 38%, Analytics 21%, Cloud 21%, Serverless 21% |
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| Tag groups | Database 97%, PostgreSQL 66%, Infrastructure 28%, Analytics 21%, Developer Tools 21%, NoSQL 21%, Distributed SQL 21% |
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| Industries | Data & Analytics 93%, Developer Tools & DevOps 38% |
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| Areas | Database 90%, Serverless 21% |
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| Capabilities | Information Technology Management 41%, SaaS Platform Operations Management 21%, Subscription Billing & Revenue Management 21% |
share of resolved cohort carrying it; tags >=0.20 & >=3 members (max 12, junk dropped), tag_groups >=0.20 (cooccurrence, non-cross-cutting; max 8), industries >=0.20 (max 6), areas >=0.10 (max 6; areas are keyword-matched and sparse), capabilities L1 >=0.20 (max 8); derive-market-taxonomy.py
Leaders by position (provisional)
Provisional: grouped by position, depth compared within a position only. Distribution (cloud marketplaces) and iPaaS bridges are counted beside
position, never inside it. Unknown-builder listings are left out of position shares and counted here.
builds-on 12 · publishes apps on other platforms' stores
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
| Planetscale |
54.7 |
18 |
0 / 18 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
standard 33%, covered 6%, builds-on-platform 44%, distribution 11%, unknown 6% |
| SingleStore |
51.8 |
14 |
0 / 14 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
ipaas-bridge 14%, standard 7%, covered 14%, builds-on-platform 50%, distribution 14% |
| Supabase |
51.8 |
17 |
0 / 17 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
ipaas-bridge 12%, standard 12%, covered 6%, builds-on-platform 47%, distribution 18%, unknown 6% |
| Materialize |
51.7 |
6 |
0 / 6 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
covered 17%, builds-on-platform 83% |
| Timescale |
51.1 |
6 |
0 / 6 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
standard 17%, covered 17%, builds-on-platform 50%, distribution 17% |
| Render |
47.9 |
6 |
0 / 6 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
standard 17%, covered 17%, builds-on-platform 67% |
| Aiven |
44.8 |
10 |
0 / 10 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
standard 20%, covered 10%, builds-on-platform 50%, distribution 20% |
| Prisma |
42.7 |
10 |
0 / 10 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
ipaas-bridge 9%, covered 9%, builds-on-platform 64%, distribution 18% |
| Neon |
34.5 thin |
2 |
0 / 2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
builds-on-platform 100% |
| Xata |
34.0 |
5 |
0 / 5 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
ipaas-bridge 40%, standard 20%, builds-on-platform 40% |
| ParadeDB |
17.2 thin |
1 |
0 / 1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
builds-on-platform 100% |
| RisingWave |
17.2 thin |
1 |
0 / 1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
builds-on-platform 100% |
covered 2 · reached mainly through aggregators
standard 6 · listed by a voluntary standard's own directory
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
| Cockroach Labs |
47.2 |
8 |
0 / 8 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
standard 62%, builds-on-platform 12%, distribution 25% |
| Yugabyte |
45.8 |
13 |
0 / 13 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
standard 31%, covered 8%, builds-on-platform 15%, distribution 46% |
| Vitess |
40.9 thin |
2 |
0 / 2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
standard 100% |
| PostgreSQL |
30.3 |
10 |
0 / 10 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
ipaas-bridge 50%, standard 30%, covered 20% |
| MySQL |
24.5 |
8 |
0 / 8 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
ipaas-bridge 62%, standard 25%, covered 12% |
| Crate Io |
23.6 thin |
1 |
0 / 1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
standard 100% |
mixed 3 · no single mode dominates
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
| ClickHouse |
55.9 |
21 |
0 / 21 |
0 |
5 |
2 |
ipaas-bridge 10%, standard 29%, covered 14%, builds-on-platform 24%, distribution 24% |
| PingCAP |
50.3 |
9 |
0 / 9 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
standard 33%, covered 11%, builds-on-platform 44%, distribution 11% |
| Heroku |
40.8 |
11 |
0 / 11 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
ipaas-bridge 18%, standard 18%, covered 27%, builds-on-platform 18%, distribution 18% |
distribution 1 · only sells through cloud marketplaces
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
| QuestDB |
9.6 thin |
1 |
0 / 1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
distribution 100% |
undeclared 5 · declares nothing we can read: no number
Shape adoption report only — not weighted
Report only, not weighted (Kin, 2026-10-13): `compatible` edges are shape votes (the provider re-serves the anchor's contract). They are shown here and as 'declares compatibility' on a provider, and are excluded from depth, position and the own/covered declaration until they hold across four weekly snapshots.
Pattern: imitation. Shape gravity (counted by company, one edge per provider, the best
evidence kept): 20. Convergence in the cohort: 19 of
24 (79.2%) — cohort members (minus the anchor's family, mediators and rival shapes) with at least one compatible edge to the shape, read from evidence.
postgres-wire anchor PostgreSQL · 20 adopters, 22 declared by the provider
By degree: full 7, declared-subset 8, declared-unqualified 7.
By evidence: own-docs 20, own-contract 2.
- Rival shapes (own contracts, not re-served): PingCAP, SingleStore, Vitess, MySQL
- In the cohort, declaring nothing we can read: Render, Google Cloud SQL, Xata, Aiven, Heroku
- Evidence ladder: conformance-register > own-docs > own-contract > own-blog > ae-structural. Degrees: full | declared-subset | declared-unqualified | interoperable-subset | same-vocabulary-own-path.
Snapshot timeline 2 weekly snapshot(s); nothing is weighted until it holds across four
| Date | Providers | Declared by the provider | Per shape (gravity / declared) |
| 2026-10-15 | 21 | 21 |
postgres-wire 21 / 21 |
| 2026-10-17 | 21 | 21 |
postgres-wire 21 / 21 |