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TCP

Score 13.6 / 100 2 providers +11 via APIs 14 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (1)

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Thin 1 Limited public surface area
StatsDAggregationDaemonDogStatsDLine Protocol1 API31.6

APIs with this tag (14)

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Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
ClickHouse Native TCP InterfaceNative binary TCP protocol used by ClickHouse client libraries for maximum throughput between client and se...73.5Cloudflare Spectrum APICloudflare Spectrum extends Cloudflare's DDoS protection and performance benefits to any TCP or UDP applica...71.4
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Benzinga TCP Streaming ServiceLow-latency persistent TCP stream (tcp-v1.benzinga.io port 11337, optional TLS) delivering real-time news, ...49.8Traefik Labs TCP APIEndpoints for inspecting TCP routers, services, and middlewares.46.7
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Betfair Exchange Stream APILow-latency, subscription-based push of market and order changes over a persistent raw SSL/TCP socket to st...38.2Photon Realtime Transport ProtocolThe core Photon protocol - NOT a REST or JSON API. Clients connect through a Name Server to a Master Server...32.4QuestDB ILP TCP IngestionInfluxDB Line Protocol over TCP for high-throughput, low-latency time-series ingestion. Default port 9009. ...32.2
Emerging 7 Early or largely undocumented
SMI Traffic SpecsTraffic Specs describes a set of resources that allow users to specify how their traffic looks. It is used ...22.8Spire Maritime AIS TCP StreamAlways-on real-time AIS feed delivered over a RAW TCP SOCKET (not HTTP, not WebSocket). Client opens a TCP ...22.6Apache MINA CoreMINA Core provides a Java NIO-based API for building high-performance network applications with support for...21.7Universal Robots Dashboard ServerPlain-text TCP command interface on port 29999 used to power on/off the robot, load and play programs, quer...16.2Universal Robots Primary and Secondary Client InterfaceStreaming binary interface on ports 30001 (Primary, 10 Hz) and 30002 (Secondary, 10 Hz) that emits robot st...16.2Universal Robots Real-Time Data Exchange (RTDE)Real-Time Data Exchange is Universal Robots' synchronous binary TCP protocol on port 30004 that lets extern...16.2Universal Robots Real-Time InterfaceBinary state interface on port 30003 emitting robot state at the 125 Hz / 500 Hz controller cycle. Predates...16.2

Companies reaching this through an API (11)

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

Apache MINA Benzinga Betfair ClickHouse Cloudflare Photon Engine QuestDB Service Mesh Interface (SMI) Spire Maritime Traefik Labs Universal Robots

Score breakdown

Frequency
33.7
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.1
spread across providers
Quality lift
25.3
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
1.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

UDP 6 co-occurrences Real-Time 5 co-occurrences

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