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Schema Registry - Kafka

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Schema Registry Overview Confluent Schema Registry provides a serving layer for your metadata. It provides a RESTful interface for storing and retrieving your  Avro® ,  JSON Schema , and  Protobuf   schemas . It stores a versioned history of all schemas based on a specified  subject name strategy , provides multiple  compatibility settings  and allows evolution of schemas according to the configured compatibility settings and expanded support for these schema types. It provides serializers that plug into Apache Kafka® clients that handle schema storage and retrieval for Kafka messages that are sent in any of the supported formats. Schema Registry lives outside of and separately from your Kafka brokers. Your producers and consumers still talk to Kafka to publish and read data (messages) to topics. Concurrently, they can also talk to Schema Registry to send and retrieve schemas that describe the data models for the messages. Confluent Schema Registry for...