Solace Schema Registry: Ushering in a New Era of Event-Driven Data Governance 

Solace Schema Registry, one of the most anticipated (and customer-requested!) features for Solace Platform, is now in general availability (GA). This milestone marks a major leap forward for organizations seeking robust data consistency, seamless interoperability, and effective governance in their event-driven systems.

Why a Schema Registry Matters

Digital complexity across clouds and applications means more distributed data, applications and micro-services that require integration. And the complexity introduces data risk – particularly in decoupled architectures that are needed for efficiency in both development and production. This makes Solace Schema Registry critical to act as the single source of truth for data formats, ensuring that both producers and consumers of events are always in sync. This not only guarantees data quality but also enables smooth schema evolution, allowing teams to upgrade or modify schemas without breaking downstream applications.

Key Features

Solace Schema Registry is designed with flexibility and scalability at its core. It supports multiple schema formats—including Avro, JSON Schema, and Protobuf (coming soon) —empowering developers to choose the best format for their needs. Centralized schema management means all definitions are stored and versioned in one place, making it easy to audit changes, roll back if needed, and maintain compatibility across microservices and applications. Versioning and compatibility checks are built-in, so teams can confidently evolve their data models while ensuring backward and forward compatibility.

Solace Schema Registry is deployed in high-availability nodes alongside Solace Event Broker to reduce the risks associated with system, region or network availability and to maximize the performance of the end-to-end system. When deployed as part of an event mesh of interconnected event brokers, it is also automatically replicated and synced across the regions.

Real-World Impact

With Solace Schema Registry now generally available, organizations can make event governance an integral part of their EDA by empowering teams to:

• Ensure data quality by enforcing schema validation at every stage.
• Enable interoperability across languages, frameworks, and platforms.
• Support schema evolution with robust versioning and compatibility checks.
• Centralize governance for better control, auditing, and compliance.

To learn how Solace Schema Registry works in production and how it enables schemas and data flow to flow across the organization, please visit the product page.

What’s next

As we continue to develop across the Solace Platform, we will further bring design time and run time together in Solace Event Portal. Solace Event Portal helps teams to build event-driven applications faster by giving developers self-service access to events from across the enterprise. In this way, it is like an API portal, but for events. For organizations using the Solace Platform they will be able to design or evolve the data structures and then deploy them using lifecycle management, environments (like dev, staging, and production) with ACL-based permissions. Watch for the early access announcements or talk to your account team to learn more.

We also continue to develop more Serializer/Deserializers (SERDES) to support even more data formats to meet needs across organizations.

Getting Started

Developers can quickly get hands-on with the Schema Registry using a comprehensive codelab and open-source samples available through Solace’s GitHub. Customers can download the latest application from their product portal, and our customer success team will work hand-in-hand with anyone looking to build a proof-of-concept or deploy in production using event driven integration best practices.

The GA release of Solace Schema Registry is more than just a new feature—it’s a cornerstone for building resilient, future-proof event-driven systems.

Check out the latest from Solace at https://solace.com/whats-new/