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Block Storage

Score 18.2 / 100 10 providers +8 via APIs 11 APIs Search apis.io →
Business capabilities this tag reaches
Information Technology Management 2

Providers using this tag (10)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Amazon EBSAmazon Web ServicesEBSEC21 API57.7
Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
LonghornBackupCloud-NativeIncubating1 API43.5Pure StorageStorageData StorageFlash StorageEnterprise Storage3 APIs48.0ZadaraCompanyStorageObject Storage4 APIs43.3RookCNCFCephCloud-Native1 API41.3VolumezStorageData InfrastructureCloud Infrastructure1 API40.4
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
StorONEStorageEnterprise StorageSoftware-Defined StorageData Management1 API34.0XSKYStorageSoftware-Defined StorageObject Storage1 API32.1CephStorageDistributed StorageObject Storage1 API26.6
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
ScaleioCompanyStorageSoftware-Defined Storage3.4

APIs with this tag (10)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Blockstorage APIThe blockstorage API from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — 33 operation(s) for blockstorage.75.3Amazon Lightsail Blockstorage APIThe blockstorage API from Amazon Lightsail — 6 operation(s) for blockstorage.73.8
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Oracle Blockstorage APIThe blockstorage API from Oracle — 33 operation(s) for blockstorage.65.9Amazon EBS APIAmazon Elastic Block Store provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in t...58.5
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Sovereign European Cloud API (SECA) Block Storage APIBlock-Storage management49.0Exoscale Blockstorage APIExoscale's Block Storage offers persistent externally attached volumes for your Compute instances.43.5Rook Ceph Block Storage APIRook provides Ceph block storage (RBD) through Kubernetes StorageClasses and PersistentVolumeClaims. The Ce...41.3
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) APICinder provides persistent block-level storage volumes that can be attached to Nova instances. The v3 API e...36.1Inspur Cloud Elastic Block Storage (EBS) APIREST API for Inspur Cloud block storage — create, extend, renew, attach, detach and delete cloud disks, plu...34.1StorONE S1 REST APIThe S1 REST API manages a StorONE storage system: create and manage applications, volumes, snapshots, share...34.0

Companies reaching this through an API (8)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Block Storage” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Amazon Lightsail Amazon Web Services Exoscale Inspur Cloud OpenStack Oracle Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Sovereign European Cloud API (SECA)

Score breakdown

Frequency
37.9
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.2
spread across providers
Quality lift
38.9
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
5.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

File Storage 6 co-occurrences Object Storage 10 co-occurrences Volumes 7 co-occurrences Snapshots 8 co-occurrences Compute 7 co-occurrences Storage 14 co-occurrences Cluster 6 co-occurrences Containers 6 co-occurrences

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