Artie vs Debezium
Artie
artie.comDebezium
debezium.ioSide by side
| Figure | Artie | Debezium |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $500/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 1 |
| Spec score · Database Replication Software | 8.5 (#4) | 8.9 (#2) |
| Spec score · Data Replication Software | 8.4 (#8) | 8.7 (#4) |
| Deployment | Enterprise customers can deploy Artie's data plane in their own cloud account or on-premise; BYOC is also described as running within the customer's cloud account. | The most common deployment uses Apache Kafka Connect; Debezium can also be embedded in JVM applications or run through Debezium Server. |
| Intended users | The company describes Free as suited to teams starting out or running small pipelines, Growth to growing teams, and Enterprise to large organizations with governance, deployment, and compliance requirements. | The project describes itself as an open-source platform and welcomes community participation in using, discussing, and developing it. |
| Support | Free includes Slack Community support, Growth includes a dedicated Slack or Teams channel, and Enterprise includes 24/7 support. | The project points users to its documentation, user chat room, and Google Group for questions. |
Plans
In their own words
Artie
Artie streams database changes captured through CDC or events ingested through an API to destinations in real time. It describes sub-minute latency and exactly-once delivery. Automatic schema handling detects column additions, drops, and type changes and applies them without pipeline restarts or manual DDL. History mode, or SCD Type 2, tracks row versions over time in the destination. A dashboard monitors pipeline health, throughput, latency, and errors, with Datadog and Grafana integrations available. Listed sources include PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Oracle, and SQL Server; destinations include Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, and S3. Data controls include column-level inclusion, exclusion, encryption, and hashing. Artie says it encrypts data in transit and at rest and does not retain data after processing. The Free plan costs nothing and allows up to 1M billable rows per month and two active pipelines. Growth costs $500 a month billed annually as $6,000, or $600/month month-to-month. Enterprise pricing is custom; it includes BYOC and on-premise deployment options.
Debezium
Debezium captures row-level database changes and delivers them to applications as events, so they can respond to inserts, updates, and deletes. Its connectors use database logs for low-delay capture without requiring changes to the data model, and can take initial or incremental snapshots, filter schemas, tables, and columns, and mask selected values. Listed databases include MongoDB, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Db2, and Cassandra. Connectors for Vitess, Spanner, Informix, CockroachDB, YashanDB, Ingres, and Milvus are marked incubating and may change without backward compatibility. A common deployment uses Apache Kafka Connect; Debezium can also run through Debezium Server or as a library in JVM applications. Debezium Server can send serialized events to Amazon Kinesis, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, and Apache Pulsar. Ready-to-use transformations support routing, filtering, and event flattening. Debezium is free under the Apache Software License 2.0. Its quay.io container images are for testing and evaluation, not production.