A schema registry stores the shape of your messages. However, it does not record who owns them or what they mean, and it does not check whether a change about to be published will break someone. event7 adds that governance layer above the registry already in place.
The following problems recur in event-driven systems. The registry does not cause them, because it was only built to store schemas.
Schemas are scattered across several registries, and each vendor governs them differently.
Nothing connects the technical schema to its business meaning: no owner, no classification, no data layer.
Contracts drift. A field changes, and you find out when a consumer breaks in production.
Whatever governance you do add is locked inside one vendor's tool, and does not travel.
Schemas stay in your registry. Everything event7 adds lives in event7, so switching registry does not cost you your governance.
Side-by-side, field by field, with breaking changes flagged. Works on Avro, JSON Schema and Protobuf.
Registry compatibility, governance rules and the diff preview in a single answer: pass, warn or fail.
Tags, owners, descriptions, data layers and classification, attached to the schema and stored outside the registry.
Conditions, transforms and policies, with a three-axis score covering enrichment, rules and schema quality.
Map a schema to where it actually travels: Kafka topics, RabbitMQ exchanges, Pulsar, NATS, Redis streams.
Import a spec to create channels and register schemas, or generate one from event7, with drift detection between the two.
event7 sits between the infrastructure and the documentation. It does not replace the registry, the documentation portal or the Kafka operations tooling.
Schema Registry ──► event7 ──► AsyncAPI ──► EventCatalog
stores governs specifies documents
validates
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└── scores · rules · channels · owners