Kafkawize Technology Solutions was acquired by Aiven Ltd., a firm that offers managed cloud versions of open-source data management solutions. Aiven announced the deal. Financial details weren't made public.
Aiven received $210 million in capital a few months before the acquisition from significant investors, including BlackRock, Salesforce Ventures, and others. The Series D fundraising deal valued the firm with headquarters in Finland at over $3 billion.
Managed implementations of well-known open-source databases, including MySQL, InfluxDB, and Redis, offered by Aiven. Other data management solutions are available in managed versions through it. The OpenSearch data search engine and Grafana, an open-source platform used by organizations to examine error logs from their IT infrastructure, are two tools that Aiven has adopted into its product line.
The startup that Aiven purchased, Kafkawize, offers the same-named open-source solution. Using Apache Kafka, an open-source platform that enables businesses to exchange data between various applications is made simpler by the tool.
More than 100,000 different companies reportedly use Kafka. The platform is available in a managed version through Aiven's product line. A business may need the capacity to transfer data between programmes in various circumstances. For instance, a store might want to import purchase records from its sales database into an analytics platform to learn more about its customers' purchasing habits. Thanks to Kafka, companies may exchange millions of data points per second between their systems.
Kafka groups the data that travels between systems into units called topics. A topic is a data stream that gives users access to a particular kind of information, like newly added purchase records, to a sales database. An application can access a topic, which can then download the data it contains.
There could be hundreds of topics in a large company that heavily uses Kafka, and each one needs to be managed separately. The tool bearing Kafkawize's name claims to make the job easier. The tool offers a centralised interface for controlling Kafka topics within a business.
According to the needs of their software projects, developers can use Kafkawize to request the creation of new Kafka topics. Through the Kafkawize interface, Kafka administrators can accept or reject developer requests. Administrators can also use the tool to alter the schema of each Kafka topic, which specifies how the data sent over a topic should be arranged.
Aiven is changing the tool's name from Kafkawize to Klaw due to the acquisition. Murali Basani, the instrument inventor, will join the business due to the acquisition. Klaw will continue to be made available by Aiven under an open-source licence.
About Aiven
Aiven is a technologically advanced firm that gives organisations control over a cloud-based open-source data infrastructure. Aiven offers managed open-source data technologies, including PostgreSQL, Kafka, and M3, across all major clouds. The company is headquartered in Helsinki and has offices in Berlin, Sydney, Toronto, and Boston. It gives its customers the ability to use open-source to generate commercial results that truly impact entire industries.
About Kafkawize
Kafkawize is a Self service Apache Kafka Topic Management/Governance tool. It is a web application that gives users of different teams within an organisation roles and authorizations, automating the process of creating and reading Kafka topics, acls, avro schemas, and connectors.
