Ververica is a German company founded by the original creators of Apache Flink, the open-source stream processing engine. The Ververica Platform, built around the VERA engine, covers stream processing, data movement through connectors and Flink CDC, and streaming architectures. Customers can run it in their own AWS or Azure account, which the company calls bring your own cloud, or install it on their own infrastructure as a self-managed deployment.
The legal entity is Ververica GmbH. Its privacy policy names Ververica GmbH, with an address in Munich, as the data controller and describes processing under the GDPR, with processors such as Amazon Web Services under Article 28. Press reports from 2019 describe a purchase of the company by Alibaba Group, which places the majority owner outside the EU. Because the platform runs in the customer's cloud account or on its own servers, the customer decides where operational data is stored. For a European organisation, the foreign ownership and the vendor's own web services remain relevant to the assessment.