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Basics of Schema Registry

Explore the role of Schema Registry in Kafka to understand how it centralizes schema storage, validation, and versioning. This lesson helps you grasp schema compatibility and the process of integrating schemas during Kafka message production and consumption, enabling consistent data handling in stream processing.

Previously, we used Schema Registry. Let’s understand it in detail.

What is Schema Registry?

Schema Registry is a central repository for storing and managing schemas for data in Kafka topics. Schemas are used to define the structure of data, and they can be used to ensure data consistency and compatibility as schemas evolve.

Several popular implementations of Schema Registry are commonly used with Apache Kafka. ...