What is Apache Kafka? Part 3
Understanding the Apache Kafka Ecosystem
The Schema Registry helps register data schemas in Apache Kafka and ensure that producers and consumers will be compatible with each other while evolving. It supports the Apache Avro, Protobuf and JSON-schema data formats.
Data schemas define for your data the expected fields, their names, and value types
Without a schema registry, producers and consumers are at the risk of breaking when the data schema changes.
The Conduktor Platform is a complete, end-to-end solution for Kafka development, encompassing Kafka management, testing, monitoring, data quality, and data governance. It allows developers to interact with the entire Kafka ecosystem such as Brokers, Topics, Consumers, Producers, Kafka Connect, and Confluent Schema Registry.
ksqlDB is a stream processing database that provides a SQL-like interface to transform Kafka topics and perform common database-like operations such as joins, aggregates, filtering, and other forms of data manipulation on streaming data.
Behind the scenes, the ksqlDB webserver translates the SQL commands into a series of Kafka Streams applications.
We hope that this page allowed you to learn about Apache Kafka and its ecosystem at a high level.
If you would like to start using Apache Kafka, we recommend you simply keep on reading these lessons in the order outlined and let us guide you in your Apache Kafka journey!
Happy learning :)