Debezium Blog
Teams evaluating Change Data Capture (CDC) tools often encounter comparison articles with titles like "Top Debezium Alternatives in 2026" or "Why We Moved Away from Debezium." These articles can be useful starting points for evaluation, but many rely on characterizations that reflect older deployment patterns rather than Debezium’s current capabilities.
Debezium is not the right fit for every team or every use case, and we will be upfront about that in this post. Different CDC tools optimize for different goals: some prioritize turnkey SaaS experiences, others focus on tightly integrated transformation pipelines, and Debezium optimizes for openness, composability, database breadth, and deployment flexibility. Understanding these tradeoffs is more useful than debating which tool is "best."
This post addresses common questions that arise during CDC evaluations, with an honest look at where Debezium fits and where other approaches might serve your team better.
We’re excited to share the next milestone in Debezium’s Google Summer of Code 2026 journey: our contributors have been selected, and the community bonding period has officially started! 🎉 Earlier this year, we announced that Debezium would participate in Google Summer of Code 2026 as part of the JBoss Community organization, offering project ideas focused on change data capture, vector databases, Quarkus, AI/ML, developer tooling, and the Debezium platform. Since then, we’ve had many interesting...
We’re pleased to announce the release of Debezium 3.6.0.Alpha2, the second development preview in the 3.6 series, delivering a range of new features, improvements, and bug fixes. This release introduces quantile metrics across all connectors, JDBC sink support for Debezium Server, and Debezium Platform enhancements including configurable labels and server images. Other highlights include a SQL Server CDC column filter toggle, a Kafka 4.2 upgrade, a Google Cloud BOM update, and the removal of the deprecated MySQL and MariaDB never snapshot mode. Read on for the full details!
We’re pleased to announce the release of Debezium 3.5.1.Final, a maintenance release focused on stability, compatibility, and performance improvements across the Debezium platform.
This release brings Informix JDBC driver v15 support, resolves a Debezium Server startup failure, fixes incorrect bytecode generation in the CockroachDB connector, and improves handling of PostgreSQL infinity timestamps in nanosecond precision mode. Additionally, incremental snapshot handling is now more robust when dealing with invalid snapshot parameters.
Let’s take a closer look at the changes included in this release.
The Debezium community grows through open collaboration among users, contributors, maintainers, and the wider data-streaming ecosystem. Starting Tuesday, May 19, we are opening our weekly team meeting on every Tuesday to the broader Debezium community. Whether you are a contributor, evaluating Debezium, or simply interested in change data capture and streaming, you are welcome to attend. The meeting duration is scheduled for 45 minutes. However, to respect everyone’s time, meetings may conclude earlier if the...
