# Vineyard

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vineyard/  
**Website:** https://v6d.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

Vineyard (v6d) is an in-memory immutable data manager developed under CNCF TAG-Storage. It provides efficient zero-copy data sharing across distributed systems for big data analytics, machine learning, and data-intensive workflows. Vineyard enables seamless object sharing between computation engines through a metadata-payload separation architecture, supporting Python, C++, Rust, and Go clients. The Vineyard Operator provides Kubernetes-native deployment with CRDs for managing clusters, sidecars, backups, and data operations.

## Kin Score — 33.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 33.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 54.4 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 19.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (7)

- **Vineyard Kubernetes Operator** — The Vineyard Kubernetes Operator manages vineyard cluster lifecycle and orchestrates shared objects on Kubernetes. It defines CRDs including Vineyardd, Sidecar, GlobalObject, Lo...
- **Vineyard Blobs API** — Low-level blob storage operations
- **Vineyard Connection API** — Connect to and disconnect from a vineyard server
- **Vineyard Metadata API** — Inspect and manage object metadata
- **Vineyard Names API** — Associate human-readable names with object IDs
- **Vineyard Objects API** — Store and retrieve in-memory objects
- **Vineyard Persistence API** — Persist objects for cross-instance visibility

## Agentic access (1)

- **Vineyard Agentic Access** — 10 operations · 6 acting

## Security (1)

- **Vineyard Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Plans (1)

- **Vineyard Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Big Data, CNCF, Cloud-Native, Data Engineering, Distributed Systems, In-Memory Storage, Kubernetes, Machine-Learning, Metadata Management, Python, Zero-Copy

---

Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/vineyard/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.