Terminology vba_preview

This terminology is important for understanding EDB Transporter functionality.

Kafka

Apache Kafka is an open-source, distributed-event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.

Change data capture (CDC)

CDC is a set of software design patterns used to determine and track the data that changed (the deltas) so that you can take action using the changed data.

Debezium

Debezium is an open-source distributed platform for CDC.

Reader

Reader uses Debezium to perform CDC on the source database and produce Kafka messages containing the change events.