transitive compatibility

A Schema Registry compatibility level that checks a new schema against every earlier version, not only the latest.

BACKWARD only compares a new schema with the one before it, so a chain of compatible steps can still break readers of an old version. The transitive levels compare with all registered versions of the subject.

Related terms

• compatibility-level
• schema-registry
• backward-compatibility

Certification courses

• CCDAK and CCAAK course and practice exams: Confluent Apache Kafka certifications