  The AGATA tracking detector array represents a significant improvement over
previous Compton suppressed arrays. The construction of AGATA led to numerous
technological breakthroughs in order to meet the requirements and the
challenges of building a mobile detector across Europe. This paper focuses on
the design and implementation of the data acquisition system responsible of the
readout and control of the germanium detectors of AGATA. Our system is highly
versatile, capable of instrumenting AGATA and seamlessly adapting it to various
configurations with a wide range of ancillary detectors and/or spectrometers.
It consists of three main components: an autonomous and independent
infrastructure, a dedicated application core ensuring overall consistency, and
a high--performance software package providing a fully integrated data flow
management including the setting-up, the supervision and the slow control of
the instrument. In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of the
system's design and performance, particularly under high-counting rate
conditions.
