Chapter 1. Debezium Overview
Red Hat build of Debezium is a distributed platform that captures database operations, creates data change event records for row-level operations, and streams change event records to Apache Kafka topics. Debezium is built on Apache Kafka and is deployed and integrated with Streams for Apache Kafka.
Debezium captures row-level changes to a database table and passes corresponding change events to Streams for Apache Kafka. Applications can read these change event streams and access the change events in the order in which they occurred.
Debezium is the upstream community project for Red Hat build of Debezium.
Debezium has multiple uses, including:
- Data replication
- Updating caches and search indexes
- Simplifying monolithic applications
- Data integration
- Enabling streaming queries
Debezium provides Apache Kafka Connect connectors for the following common databases:
