Chapter 1. Debezium Overview
Red Hat Debezium is a distributed platform that captures database operations, creates data change event records for row-level operations, and streams change event records to Kafka topics. Red Hat Debezium is built on Apache Kafka and is deployed and integrated with AMQ Streams.
Debezium captures row-level changes to a database table and passes corresponding change events to AMQ Streams. Applications can read these change event streams and access the change events in the order in which they occurred.
Debezium has multiple uses, including:
- Data replication
- Updating caches and search indexes
- Simplifying monolithic applications
- Data integration
- Enabling streaming queries
Debezium provides connectors (based on Kafka Connect) for the following common databases:
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQL Server
- MongoDB
Db2
ImportantThe Debezium Db2 connector is a Technology Preview feature. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service-level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete; therefore, Red Hat does not recommend implementing any Technology Preview features in production environments. This Technology Preview feature provides early access to upcoming product innovations, enabling you to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process. For more information about support scope, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.
Debezium is the upstream community project for Red Hat Debezium.
