adk-aerospike

Aerospike-backed storage services for Google Agent Development Kit (ADK).

Status: alpha (0.0.2). All three ADK storage interfaces implemented end-to-end against ADK 2.x.

What's in here

Three implementations of ADK's pluggable storage interfaces, plus URI-scheme registration so the adk CLI can use Aerospike directly:

Why use this

• All three ADK storage interfaces in one package — Session, Artifact, and Memory, backed by a single Aerospike cluster.
• Native in-process client. Talks directly to Aerospike; nothing extra to deploy or operate.
• Lexical memory search in Aerospike — text is tokenized at write time; each query token does a point read on posting-list keys (app:user:kw:<token>), then hydrates matching memory rows. Same word-overlap semantics as ADK's InMemoryMemoryService.
• Session list via per-user manifest — app:user:sl holds session ids; list reads metadata bins only (no full event tail over the wire).
• Single-record server-side atomic appends — Aerospike Map/List CDTs let append_event commit state delta, event append, and timestamp bump in one round trip.
• Chunked session records handle long event histories without hitting Aerospike's write-block-size limit, while keeping the hot path a single operation.
• Single round-trip get_session — batch_read fetches the session record, app-state record, and user-state record in one network call.
• adk web integration — register the aerospike:// URI scheme and the CLI flags work out of the box.
• No AI/ML dependency. Memory is a storage backend, not an embedding pipeline — no embedder to wire up, no model to host.

Install

pip install adk-aerospike

Requires Python 3.11+ and Aerospike Database 7.x or 8.x (Community or Enterprise).

Development install

From a clone of this repository (Python 3.11+):

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate  # Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"
python -c "from adk_aerospike import AerospikeSessionService; print('ok')"

Release process: RELEASING.md.

Quick start

Spin up a local Aerospike container:

docker run --rm -d --name aerospike -p 3000-3003:3000-3003 aerospike/aerospike-server:latest

Then wire it into an ADK agent:

import asyncio
from google.adk.agents import LlmAgent
from google.adk.runners import Runner
from google.genai import types
from adk_aerospike import AerospikeSessionService

async def main() -> None:
    session_service = AerospikeSessionService.from_uri(
        "aerospike://localhost:3000/test"
    )
    agent = LlmAgent(name="greeter", model="gemini-2.5-flash",
                     instruction="Be friendly. <30 words.")
    runner = Runner(agent=agent, app_name="quickstart",
                    session_service=session_service)

    session = await session_service.create_session(
        app_name="quickstart", user_id="user-42"
    )
    async for event in runner.run_async(
        user_id="user-42", session_id=session.id,
        new_message=types.Content(role="user", parts=[types.Part(text="Hi!")]),
    ):
        for part in (event.content.parts if event.content else []):
            if part.text:
                print(part.text)

    session_service.close()

asyncio.run(main())

See examples/quickstart.py for the complete file (needs a GOOGLE_API_KEY to actually call the model).

Connection URIs

All three services accept the same aerospike:// URI scheme:

aerospike://[user:pass@]host[:3000][,host2[:port],…]/<namespace>[?option=value]

Examples:

aerospike://localhost:3000/test
aerospike://user:pass@host1:3000,host2:3000/adk?set_prefix=prod_&tls=true

Query parameters:

• set_prefix=adk_ — default set-name prefix (lets multiple installations share one namespace)
• tls=true — enables TLS (use tls_config=... kwarg for mTLS details)

Example: SessionService

import asyncio
from google.adk.events import Event, EventActions
from google.genai import types
from adk_aerospike import AerospikeSessionService

async def main() -> None:
    svc = AerospikeSessionService.from_uri("aerospike://localhost:3000/test")

    # Create a session with initial state (mixes session-, app-, and user-scoped keys)
    session = await svc.create_session(
        app_name="support_bot",
        user_id="alice",
        state={
            "topic": "billing",            # session-scoped
            "app:tenant": "acme-corp",     # shared across all users of the app
            "user:nickname": "Allie",      # shared across alice's sessions
            "temp:scratch": "throwaway",   # in-process only — never persisted
        },
    )
    print(f"session id: {session.id}")

    # Append an event (one server-side atomic op — list_append + state delta + ts bump)
    await svc.append_event(
        session,
        Event(
            invocation_id="i1",
            author="user",
            content=types.Content(role="user",
                                  parts=[types.Part(text="Where's my invoice?")]),
            actions=EventActions(state_delta={"turn": 1}),
        ),
    )

    # Fetch — single batch_read across session + app_state + user_state (1 RTT)
    fetched = await svc.get_session(
        app_name="support_bot", user_id="alice", session_id=session.id
    )
    print(fetched.state)
    # {'topic': 'billing', 'turn': 1, 'app:tenant': 'acme-corp', 'user:nickname': 'Allie'}

    # List a user's sessions (events/state stripped per ADK contract)
    resp = await svc.list_sessions(app_name="support_bot", user_id="alice")
    print(f"{len(resp.sessions)} sessions")

    # Delete cascades to every sealed chunk
    await svc.delete_session(
        app_name="support_bot", user_id="alice", session_id=session.id
    )

    svc.close()

asyncio.run(main())

State scoping (matches google.adk.sessions.state.State):

Example: ArtifactService

import asyncio
from google.genai import types
from adk_aerospike import AerospikeArtifactService

async def main() -> None:
    svc = AerospikeArtifactService.from_uri("aerospike://localhost:3000/test")

    # Session-scoped: visible only within this session
    v = await svc.save_artifact(
        app_name="support_bot", user_id="alice", session_id="s-1",
        filename="receipt.png",
        artifact=types.Part(
            inline_data=types.Blob(mime_type="image/png", data=b"\x89PNG..."),
        ),
    )
    print(f"saved version {v}")  # 0

    # Save again → version 1
    await svc.save_artifact(
        app_name="support_bot", user_id="alice", session_id="s-1",
        filename="receipt.png",
        artifact=types.Part(
            inline_data=types.Blob(mime_type="image/png", data=b"\x89PNG..updated"),
        ),
    )

    # Load latest (or pass version=0 for the first)
    latest = await svc.load_artifact(
        app_name="support_bot", user_id="alice", session_id="s-1",
        filename="receipt.png",
    )
    print(latest.inline_data.mime_type, len(latest.inline_data.data))

    # User-scoped: 'user:' prefix → cross-session visible
    await svc.save_artifact(
        app_name="support_bot", user_id="alice", session_id="s-1",
        filename="user:avatar.jpg",
        artifact=types.Part(text="<jpeg bytes here>"),
    )
    # Same artifact is now visible from any session:
    avatar = await svc.load_artifact(
        app_name="support_bot", user_id="alice", session_id="s-2",  # different session
        filename="user:avatar.jpg",
    )
    assert avatar is not None

    # list_artifact_keys merges session-scoped + user-scoped
    keys = await svc.list_artifact_keys(
        app_name="support_bot", user_id="alice", session_id="s-1",
    )
    print(keys)  # ['receipt.png', 'user:avatar.jpg']

    # ADK 2.x metadata methods
    versions = await svc.list_artifact_versions(
        app_name="support_bot", user_id="alice", session_id="s-1",
        filename="receipt.png",
    )
    for v in versions:
        print(v.version, v.canonical_uri, v.mime_type, v.create_time)

    svc.close()

asyncio.run(main())

Example: MemoryService

Lexical word-overlap search — same semantics as InMemoryMemoryService, via per-token posting-list primary keys (app:user:kw:<token>). No embedder.

import asyncio
from google.adk.events import Event, EventActions
from google.adk.sessions import Session
from google.genai import types
from adk_aerospike import AerospikeMemoryService

async def main() -> None:
    memory = AerospikeMemoryService.from_uri(
        "aerospike://localhost:3000/test", top_k=10,
    )

    # Persist a session's text events to long-term memory. Text is tokenized
    # into keywords; each token updates a posting-list row and a memory row.
    session = Session(
        id="s-1", app_name="support_bot", user_id="alice",
        events=[
            Event(invocation_id="i", author="user",
                  content=types.Content(role="user",
                      parts=[types.Part(text="Python uses duck typing.")]),
                  actions=EventActions()),
            Event(invocation_id="j", author="user",
                  content=types.Content(role="user",
                      parts=[types.Part(text="My favorite color is blue.")]),
                  actions=EventActions()),
        ],
    )
    await memory.add_session_to_memory(session)

    # Search — batch_read posting lists per query token, union refs,
    # batch_read memory rows, rank by token overlap.
    resp = await memory.search_memory(
        app_name="support_bot", user_id="alice", query="python duck typing",
    )
    for m in resp.memories:
        print(m.author, m.timestamp, m.content.parts[0].text)
    # → user 2026-... Python uses duck typing.

    memory.close()

asyncio.run(main())

Use with adk web / adk run

Register the URI scheme once, e.g. in a services.py next to your agent:

# services.py
import adk_aerospike
adk_aerospike.register()

Then drive the CLI normally:

adk web \
  --session_db_url=aerospike://localhost:3000/adk \
  --artifact_storage_uri=aerospike://localhost:3000/adk \
  --memory_service_uri=aerospike://localhost:3000/adk

Storage shape — what ends up in Aerospike

Five sets in a single namespace (default prefix adk_):

adk_sessions      app:user:session                ← session record (state + hot tail)
                  app:user:session:c:NNNNNNNN  ← sealed chunk record (older events)
                  app:user:sl                    ← session-id manifest (list_sessions)

adk_app_state     app                                   ← one per (app)
adk_user_state    app:user                           ← one per (app, user)

adk_artifacts     app:user:session:fname:NNNNNNNN
                  app:user:user:user:fname:NNNNNNNN   ← user-scoped (sentinel "user")

adk_memory        app:user:session:eventid       ← memory row
                  app:user:kw:token              ← posting list ({eid,sid,ts} refs)

The session record is the hot path — events accumulate in an inline List bin (the hot tail) until it reaches a 256 KiB threshold, then flush to a sealed chunk record. Most append_event calls are a single server-side atomic operate(); get_session is a single batch_read (session + app_state + user_state in one RTT) plus chunk reads only when the requested event window exceeds the tail.

For the full design (chunking, atomicity, key formats, indexes, trade-offs), see design.md.

Running tests

CI runs on every push to main and on pull requests (see .github/workflows/tests.yml):

• Unit — pytest -m "not aerospike" on Python 3.11 and 3.12 (no Docker).
• Integration — starts Aerospike CE with scripts/start_aerospike_ce.sh (docker run aerospike/aerospike-server:latest), then pytest -m aerospike (~4 minutes).

Locally:

pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Unit tests only (no Docker required, ~2s)
pytest -m "not aerospike"

# Integration — explicit Aerospike CE container (matches CI)
./scripts/start_aerospike_ce.sh
set -a && source .aerospike-ci.env && set +a
pytest -m aerospike
./scripts/stop_aerospike_ce.sh

# Integration — or let testcontainers start Aerospike for you (no script)
pytest -m aerospike

# Full suite (testcontainers path if env vars unset)
pytest

Documentation

• design.md — full design document (for engineering / DevRel)
• docs/data-model.md — set/bin/index reference
• docs/integrations.md — ADK integration catalog entry
• examples/ — runnable examples, including end-to-end validation against Google's official adk-samples (7/7 wiring + 7/7 real-Gemini E2E — see examples/README.md)
• CLAUDE.md — auto-loaded context for Claude Code sessions

Comparison with other ADK storage integrations

We're the only package shipping all three storage interfaces with embedding-based semantic memory, backed by a single in-process database.

License

Apache-2.0