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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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 9.2/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

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

Spiral Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

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Resources

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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Authentication, authorization, and security posture

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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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.
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