Spiral

Spiral (SpiralDB) is a multimodal data platform built for the "machine consumer" — frontier AI systems and agents. It unifies video, images, audio, embeddings, point clouds, sensor streams, tables, and text under one query language and coordinate-frame system, serving everything from raw bytes to model-ready tensors at machine-scale throughput for pretraining pipelines and agentic access. Spiral is the creator of Vortex, a high-performance extensible columnar data format (100x faster random access and 10-20x faster scans vs. Apache Parquet) now incubating under the Linux Foundation, along with the FastLanes, FSST, and ALP compression libraries. The hosted Spiral warehouse is currently invite-only (Request Access); the public developer surface today is the open-source Vortex ecosystem (Python and Rust bindings). Backed by Amplify Partners and General Catalyst.

Spiral is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Developer Tools, Data, Data Infrastructure, and Columnar Format.

Spiral’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 5 more developer resources.

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7.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only library Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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Company Developer Tools Data Data InfrastructureColumnar FormatMultimodal AI Machine-Learning Open-Source

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 7.2/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.9 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Spiral Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: spiral
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Requires approval
  confidence: medium
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/spiral.png
name: Spiral
description: Spiral (SpiralDB) is a multimodal data platform built for the "machine consumer" — frontier AI systems and agents.
  It unifies video, images, audio, embeddings, point clouds, sensor streams, tables, and text under one query language and
  coordinate-frame system, serving everything from raw bytes to model-ready tensors at machine-scale throughput for pretraining
  pipelines and agentic access. Spiral is the creator of Vortex, a high-performance extensible columnar data format (100x
  faster random access and 10-20x faster scans vs. Apache Parquet) now incubating under the Linux Foundation, along with the
  FastLanes, FSST, and ALP compression libraries. The hosted Spiral warehouse is currently invite-only (Request Access); the
  public developer surface today is the open-source Vortex ecosystem (Python and Rust bindings). Backed by Amplify Partners
  and General Catalyst.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spiral/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- amplify-partners
- general-catalyst
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Developer Tools
- Data
- Data Infrastructure
- Columnar Format
- Multimodal AI
- Machine-Learning
- Open-Source
tags_raw:
- Company
- Developer Tools
- Data
- Data Infrastructure
- Columnar Format
- Multimodal AI
- Machine Learning
- Open Source
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/spiral-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://spiraldb.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://spiral.dev/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/spiraldb
- type: Packages
  url: packages/spiral-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/spiral-packages.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1

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