CadenzaFlow is built to handle real-world complexity—BPMN, DMN, APIs, and observability, all designed for today’s workflows and tomorrow’s scale.
CadenzaFlow is the modern, stable fork of Camunda 7—built to preserve true open source while delivering enterprise-grade reliability.
Designed for real-world complexity, CadenzaFlow keeps workflow logic external and BPMN/DMN-compliant, never locked inside application code.
Run production workloads with the Community Edition, or scale with Enterprise features for long-term support, SLA guarantees, and advanced operational manageability.
From simple workflows to mission-critical business orchestration, CadenzaFlow gives you APIs, SDKs, and full observability—so you can build and govern the processes your business needs, without compromise.
At the heart of CadenzaFlow is its reliance on a shared relational database, ensuring strong consistency, reliability, and auditability across distributed environments. This design allows enterprises to preserve full transactional guarantees, eliminating the risks of data loss or “uncontrollable power” that can arise in stateless, event-only architectures.
CadenzaFlow can be deployed in clustered configurations, allowing enterprises to scale and tailor nodes to their operational needs:
- WebApp Nodes: Multiple nodes running Cockpit, Tasklist, and Admin can be deployed behind a load balancer for resilience and user scalability.
- Job Executor Nodes: Dedicated nodes that focus purely on executing background jobs for high-throughput processing.
- REST API + Job Executor Nodes: Combined nodes that expose APIs while simultaneously processing workloads for maximum throughput and efficiency.
This node specialization model enables both scale and reliability while keeping full control over operational topology.
One of Camunda 7's most significant strengths is its comprehensive REST API, which allows fine-grained operational control unmatched in newer platforms:
- Suspend/resume process instances
- Manage tasks at an individual, granular level
- Control runtime state with precision across the engine: single skip, retry, jump to another step, and more
These capabilities — absent in many newer generation non-compliant workflow engines and even in new Camunda 8 “horizontally scalable” engines — give enterprises the confidence to operate at scale without losing control.
Coming soon: Kafka, REST API, Salesforce and many more connectors designed around the external task pattern. Unlike engines that run connectors inside the core engine, CadenzaFlow supports enterprise operational sovereignty by keeping connectors decoupled and running external to the workflow engine, ensuring maximum flexibility and safety.
Planned AI-powered connectors will enable workflows to interact with AI models (including LLMs), bringing AI-assisted orchestration to enhance automation and decision-making — without compromising enterprise control.
- Scalable Event Bus: Event-driven external task dispatching; CadenzaFlow will offload dispatching of external tasks through horizontally scalable open event buses (Kafka, NATS, or others to be decided) instead of proprietary and unscalable topics that also drain CPU cycles from the workflow engine.
- Next-generation SQL DBs: Support for modern, distributed, but still relational-at-heart SQL engines to achieve massive throughput while preserving the transactional consistency and operational management APIs that enterprises rely on for operations