Stream Platform

{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/streaming/main/json-schema/streaming-stream-platform-schema.json",
  "title": "Stream Platform",
  "description": "Catalog record for a streaming platform — Kafka, Pulsar, Redpanda, NATS JetStream, Kinesis, Event Hubs, Pub/Sub, Confluent Cloud, etc. Describes the platform's identity, deployment model, supported protocols, and the URLs needed to operate against it.",
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["id", "name", "category"],
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Stable identifier for the platform (slug)."
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Display name of the platform."
    },
    "vendor": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Organization that maintains the platform (Apache Software Foundation, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Confluent, Redpanda Data, Synadia, StreamNative, etc.)."
    },
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "log-structured-broker",
        "message-broker",
        "managed-stream",
        "pubsub",
        "stream-processor",
        "connector-framework",
        "cdc",
        "streaming-protocol"
      ],
      "description": "What kind of streaming component this is."
    },
    "deployment_model": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": ["self-hosted", "managed", "serverless", "hybrid", "spec"],
      "description": "How customers consume the platform."
    },
    "license": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Source license (Apache-2.0, BSL, proprietary, etc.)."
    },
    "protocols": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "kafka-wire",
          "pulsar-binary",
          "amqp",
          "mqtt",
          "nats",
          "stomp",
          "grpc",
          "http",
          "http2",
          "websocket",
          "sse"
        ]
      },
      "description": "Wire protocols supported by the platform."
    },
    "client_languages": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": { "type": "string" },
      "description": "Officially supported client SDK languages."
    },
    "delivery_guarantees": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": ["at-most-once", "at-least-once", "exactly-once"]
      }
    },
    "ordering": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": ["per-partition", "per-key", "global", "best-effort"]
    },
    "schema_registry": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Whether the platform integrates with a Schema Registry."
    },
    "tiered_storage": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "geo_replication": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "kubernetes_native": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Whether the platform is operated via Kubernetes CRDs (Strimzi, Pulsar Operator, etc.)."
    },
    "urls": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "home": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
        "docs": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
        "github": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
        "pricing": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
        "status": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" }
      }
    },
    "tags": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": { "type": "string" }
    }
  }
}