Tungsten Replicator

Spec sheet

Purpose

Tungsten Replicator moves data between databases and other transactional, NoSQL, and data warehouse stores.Read 9 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Intended users

Continuent describes its customers as SaaS, e-commerce, financial services, gaming, and telecom companies using open-source databases.Read 8 Oct 2026 · continuent.com

Deployment

The documentation describes installation from RPM or compressed tarball packages and deployment through Docker in version 8.0.4 and later.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Integrations

Listed targets include MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, HPE Vertica, Hadoop, MongoDB, Apache Kafka, and Amazon S3.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Security

From version 7.0.0 onward, security is enabled by default and supports SSL/TLS, certificates, authentication, and file permissions.Read 9 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Support

Continuent offers paid support contracts for Tungsten Replicator; marketplace images do not include Continuent Support.Read 9 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Headquarters

Moraga, California, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Founded

2004Read 28 Sep 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Cloud sources

Extractors can read from MySQL, Amazon RDS MySQL, Amazon Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, and Microsoft Azure; remote extraction is described for RDS and Aurora.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Data transformation

Filters can remove, modify, or augment replicated data based on schema, table, column, field value, or operation type.Read 9 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Docker limitation

The Docker deployment can currently configure only a cluster-extractor topology and requires an operational Tungsten Cluster as its source.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Filtering

Filters can select or modify data by schema, table, column, field value, or operation type, and can add information to replicated data.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Maker history

Continuent’s timeline says the original company was founded in Finland in 2001.Read 9 Oct 2026 · continuent.com

Marketplace deployment

Tungsten Replicator machine images are available through AWS and Google Cloud marketplaces on an hourly usage model.Read 9 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Marketplace images

The introduction says images are available through Amazon Marketplace and Google GCP without Continuent support.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Platform limitation

Windows and macOS are not supported for direct installation, though supported hosts can replicate to remote databases running on those platforms.Read 9 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Replication limitation

DDL is replicated only in MySQL to MySQL deployments; heterogeneous deployments require row based binary logging.Read 9 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Replication modes

It supports statement based and row based replication, assigning transactions a unique global transaction ID.Read 9 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Sources

Documented extraction sources include MySQL, Amazon RDS MySQL, Amazon Aurora, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud SQL.Read 9 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Supported operating systems

The OS support page lists supported Linux distributions and states that Windows and macOS are not supported for installation of Tungsten components.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Targets

Documented appliers include MySQL variants, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, Vertica, Hadoop, MongoDB, Kafka, and Amazon S3.Read 9 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Topologies

It supports parallel replication and fan-in, star, and active/active topologies, including cross site deployments.Read 9 Oct 2026 · docs.continuent.com

Plans and prices

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