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Block Storage

Score 18.7 / 100 9 providers +7 via APIs 10 APIs Search apis.io →
Variants seen in the corpus: Block Storageblock-storage

Providers using this tag (9)

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

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Amazon EBSAmazon Web ServicesEBSEC21 API58.2
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Pure StorageStorageData StorageFlash StorageEnterprise Storage3 APIs49.8LonghornBackupCloud-NativeIncubating1 API46.0RookCNCFCephCloud-Native1 API44.2
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
VolumezStorageData InfrastructureCloud Infrastructure1 API38.0StorONEStorageEnterprise StorageSoftware-Defined StorageData Management1 API33.1XSKYStorageSoftware-Defined StorageObject Storage1 API30.6CephStorageDistributed StorageObject Storage1 API26.3
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
ScaleioCompanyStorageSoftware-Defined Storage5.0

APIs with this tag (10)

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Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Amazon EBS APIAmazon Elastic Block Store provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in t...78.2Oracle Platforms Blockstorage APIThe blockstorage API from Oracle Platforms — 33 operation(s) for blockstorage.69.5
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Oracle Blockstorage APIThe blockstorage API from Oracle — 33 operation(s) for blockstorage.60.2
Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Rook Ceph Block Storage APIRook provides Ceph block storage (RBD) through Kubernetes StorageClasses and PersistentVolumeClaims. The Ce...44.2
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
Exoscale block-storage APIExoscale's Block Storage offers persistent externally attached volumes for your Compute instances.38.9OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) APICinder provides persistent block-level storage volumes that can be attached to Nova instances. The v3 API e...38.4Volumez Orchestrator APIREST API for the Volumez orchestrator — create and modify volumes from declarative policies, plan and auto-...38.0Digital Ocean Block Storage API[DigitalOcean Block Storage Volumes](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/volumes/) provide expanded stor...36.7StorONE S1 REST APIThe S1 REST API manages a StorONE storage system: create and manage applications, volumes, snapshots, share...33.1Inspur Cloud Elastic Block Storage (EBS) APIREST API for Inspur Cloud block storage — create, extend, renew, attach, detach and delete cloud disks, plu...32.0

Companies reaching this through an API (7)

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 Web Services (AWS) Digital Ocean Exoscale Inspur Cloud OpenStack Oracle Oracle Platforms

Score breakdown

Frequency
38.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.2
spread across providers
Quality lift
41.7
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
5.2
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

File Storage 6 co-occurrences Object Storage 8 co-occurrences Volumes 6 co-occurrences Snapshots 7 co-occurrences Compute 6 co-occurrences Storage 12 co-occurrences Kubernetes 8 co-occurrences Database 5 co-occurrences

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