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Change Data Capture: Stop Copying 50M Rows to Move 5K Changes
Change Data Capture (CDC) is a technique to efficiently track and stream only the changes from a source database instead of repeatedly copying entire tables. Popular tools include Debezium, Kafka, Fivetran, and Striim. Start simple with timestamps for prototyping and moving to log-based CDC for reliable, low-latency, scalable data synchronization in modern data pipelines.
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