specification: FinOps Framework
specificationVersion: '1.0'
schema: https://www.finops.org/framework/
provider: Spring Data
providerId: spring-data
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-05'
reconciled: false
tags:
  - Data Access
  - Database
  - Java
  - Spring Framework
  - FinOps
  - FOCUS
description: Spring Data is open-source self-hosted software with no vendor invoice. FinOps applies only to the cloud infrastructure that hosts the application (compute, memory) and to the underlying database the Spring Data repositories talk to (RDS, MongoDB Atlas, Redis Cloud, etc.).
sources:
  - https://spring.io/projects/spring-data
  - https://tanzu.vmware.com/spring-runtime
notes: No vendor usage meter for Spring Data itself. Real cost lives in the database / datastore invoice that backs the repositories, plus optional Tanzu Spring support.
alignedWith:
  framework: FinOps Foundation Framework
  frameworkUrl: https://www.finops.org/framework/
  dataSpec: FOCUS
  dataSpecVersion: '1.3'
  dataSpecUrl: https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/v1-3/
publisherName: Broadcom (VMware Tanzu)
serviceCategory: Developer Tools
billingModel:
  pricingCategory: Open Source
  billingFrequency: Annual
  billingCurrency: USD
  chargeCategories:
    - Purchase
focusColumns:
  ServiceName: Spring Data
  ServiceCategory: Developer Tools
  ProviderName: Spring Data
  PublisherName: Broadcom
  InvoiceIssuerName: Broadcom
  BillingCurrency: USD
meters:
  - name: spring_runtime_subscription
    unit: month
    aggregation: sum
    dimensions:
      - contract_tier
      - cores
principles:
  - name: Visibility
    description: Spring Data exposes Micrometer metrics for repository-level query timing and HikariCP pool saturation; operators ship these to their observability stack to attribute database cost back to specific repositories and endpoints.
  - name: Allocation
    description: Allocate the underlying database spend (RDS, MongoDB Atlas, Redis Cloud) to the team that owns each Spring Data repository. Tag the database resources with team and product in the cloud provider's tagging.
  - name: Optimization
    description: Cost levers live in the data layer - tune query plans surfaced via JPA/SQL logging, cap PageSize defaults on Spring Data REST collection resources, and use projections to shrink payload size and downstream egress.
  - name: Accountability
    description: Application teams own the cost of the queries their Spring Data repositories generate; platform/SRE owns the shared datastore footprint and any Tanzu Spring support contract.
maintainers:
  - name: VMware Tanzu / Broadcom
    url: https://tanzu.vmware.com/spring-runtime