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The Schema RegistryWe All Waited For

Cloud native, stateless, with full schema interoperability. Remove the toil from your data engineering teams.

  • Open source
  • Confluent-compatible
  • Object-store native
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Compatible where it counts.
Different where it matters.

cloud_native

Cloud native

Built from the ground up for modern cloud environments. Scales horizontally with no leader and no coordination service.

stateless

Stateless architecture

No Kafka as a backend. Point it at any globally available object store and it becomes the source of truth.

fast

Lightning fast

Compare-and-swap writes and index-backed lookups keep latency minimal on the critical path of your pipelines.

register_once

Register once, read any

One registry for Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema with real compatibility checks. Soon: read any schema in the format your consumer wants.

drop_in

Developer friendly

API-compatible with the Confluent Schema Registry. Point your existing clients at Babel, with no code changes.

import

Bring your registry

Import an existing Confluent, Aiven, or Redpanda registry in place, with schema IDs, versions, and compatibility settings preserved.

missing_pieces

The missing pieces

Schema forking, rich metadata, and end-to-end lineage: the capabilities the incumbent never shipped, now first-class.