Debezium

Open-source CDC to Kafka.

Definition

Debezium publishes events in Connect/JSON or Avro/Protobuf format via Schema Registry. Connectors: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle, Cassandra, Db2, Vitess. Outbox Pattern, Initial Snapshot, Incremental Snapshot. Runs in Kafka Connect mode.

Origin

Created by Red Hat in 2016 ; v1.0 December 2019 ; v2.7 current (2025).

Example in context

A bank streams 1M PostgreSQL tx/sec to Kafka via Debezium for downstream materialized views.

Related terms

• Kafka Connect — runtime.