Kafka Schema Registry Limitations

Describes the limitations related to the Kafka Schema Registry.

  • Kafka REST support limitation

    Avro schema is not supported for Kafka REST.

  • Security limitation

    MapR ticket based authentication, SSL, and other security mechanisms are not supported.

  • MapR Installer

    You cannot use the MapR Installer to install the Kafka Schema Registry.

  • Avro-console-producer and Avro-console-consumer

    You cannot use avro-console-producer and avro-console-consumer in the current release.

  • SchemaParseException

    Loading data via JDBC Source connector from Hive throws an exception.

  • Replication Limitation

    Replication for Kafka Schema Registry is not supported.

  • KSQL and Kafka Connect Limitation

    To work with Avro schemas, you need to manually modify the KSQL and Kafka Connect configuration files.