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Protocol Buffers

Score 18.8 / 100 15 providers +11 via APIs 24 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (15)

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

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps

BufCode GenerationgRPCKafkaOpen Source2 APIs64.9 AgiBotCompanyRoboticsHumanoid RobotsEmbodied AI3 APIs56.0

Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

gRPCCNCFHTTP/2Microservices1 API43.0 AGNTCYAI AgentsInteroperabilitySpecificationOpen Source4 APIs51.0 EngFlowCompanyRemote ExecutionRemote CachingBuild Systems1 API47.3

Thin 5 Limited public surface area

AalyriaCompanyNetworkingSatelliteSpace4 APIs37.9 TypeSpecAPI DesignCode GenerationDeveloper ToolsOpenAPI6 APIs35.7 Science CorporationCompanyNeurotechnologyBrain-Computer InterfaceNeural Interface1 API33.8 HailoArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSemiconductorsEdge Computing2 APIs31.4 KratosCloud-NativeFrameworkGogRPC1 API28.7

Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented

Protocol BuffersData FormatgRPCProtobuf1 API24.0 TwirpRPCGoSDK1 API21.1 KitexFrameworkGoHigh PerformanceMicroservices1 API20.6 UtilidataCompanyEnergyElectric GridUtilities13.3 Connect-RPCApache 2.0BufCode GenerationConnect Protocol5 APIs12.5

APIs with this tag (24)

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Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready

ClickHouse gRPC InterfacegRPC interface defined by clickhouse_grpc.proto for efficient binary communication.77.1

Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps

Buf CLIThe Buf CLI is a local Protobuf development toolchain providing linting, breaking change detection, code ge...64.9 Buf Schema Registry (BSR)The Buf Schema Registry (BSR) is a centralized repository for managing, distributing, and documenting Proto...64.9 AimDK Protocol (Link-U OS Robot Interface)The AimDK protocol is AgiBot's first-party Protocol Buffers definition of its robots' interfaces, published...56.0 AdCOM ProtobufAdvertising Common Object Model (AdCOM) 1.0 is the shared object layer beneath OpenRTB 3.0, OpenDirect and ...55.6 OpenRTB 2.x ProtocolOpenRTB is the real-time bidding protocol between ad exchanges and bidders. IAB Tech Lab publishes the 2.x ...55.6

Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

Agent Directory (DIR)Distributed announce and discovery of multi-agent systems. gRPC-first, with services for storage (content-a...51.0 Cerbos PDP gRPC APIThe Cerbos PDP gRPC API exposes the cerbos.svc.v1.CerbosService and related management services on port 359...50.7 gRPC Core FrameworkThe gRPC core framework defines the RPC protocol, service definition format using Protocol Buffers, and the...43.0 Protocol Buffers Service Definition SchemaJSON Schema for Protocol Buffers service definition format (.proto files). Describes the structure of gRPC ...43.0

Thin 9 Limited public surface area

Gemini Robotics SDK (Safari) protocol buffersProtocol buffer message definitions published by Google DeepMind in the Gemini Robotics SDK (safari_sdk) fo...37.0 OpenSCOW / CraneSched research-computing APIsOpenSCOW ("Super Computing On Web") is an HPC portal and management system authored at Peking University; C...37.0 Prometheus Remote WriteRemote Write is Prometheus' push protocol for shipping scraped samples to long-term storage and analysis ba...35.9 TypeSpec Protobuf EmitterEmits Protocol Buffer `.proto` files from TypeSpec service definitions, enabling gRPC service generation fr...35.7 HailoRTHailoRT is Hailo's production runtime library for the Hailo-8, Hailo-10 and Hailo-15 device families. It is...31.4 Vert.x gRPCA Vert.x-native gRPC implementation providing a reactive, non-blocking gRPC client and server built on top ...30.8 StarCraft II Client Protocol (s2client-proto)Protocol Buffers definition of the StarCraft II API used by bots and AI agents to control the StarCraft II ...29.4 KratosKratos is a Go framework for building cloud-native microservices, originally created at Bilibili. It provid...28.7 Riak Protocol Buffers Client APIHigher-performance binary client API for Riak KV using Protocol Buffers messages encoded over a long-lived ...27.3

Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented

BandChain gRPC APIThe BandChain gRPC API provides high-performance protocol buffer access to BandChain nodes for querying ora...25.2 Protocol BuffersProtocol Buffers (Protobuf) is Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serial...24.0 Apache SkyWalking gRPC Data Collect ProtocolThe SkyWalking data collection protocol defines gRPC service definitions for telemetry data ingestion from ...21.6 Twirp RPC FrameworkTwirp is a simple RPC framework with protobuf service definitions. Define your service in a .proto file and...21.1 KitexKitex is a high-performance, extensible RPC framework for building microservices in Go, developed by ByteDa...20.6

Companies reaching this through an API (11)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Protocol Buffers” 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.

Activision Blizzard Apache SkyWalking Band Protocol Cerbos ClickHouse DeepMind IAB Tech Lab Peking University Prometheus Riak KV Vert.x

Score breakdown

Frequency

39.4

log-scaled weighted occurrences

Breadth

0.2

spread across providers

Quality lift

34.7

mean composite of providers using it

Cohesion

13.2

strength of nearest seed neighbor

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