Artie vs Google Cloud Datastream

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.

Google Cloud Datastream is a serverless change data capture and replication service for synchronizing data. Streams can capture ongoing updates and backfill historical records, while the service scales automatically without resources for users to provision or manage. Supported destinations include BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Apache Iceberg tables. Documented sources include Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AlloyDB, SQL Server, MongoDB, Spanner, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, and Microsoft Dataverse; some sources are marked as preview. Datastream can work with Dataflow templates to load data from Cloud Storage into destinations including BigQuery, Cloud SQL, and Spanner. Connectivity options include IP allowlisting, a forward SSH tunnel, and private connectivity over VPC peering. Processing is charged, idle streams incur no cost, and other Google Cloud resources are billed separately. The free tier includes 100 GiB of eligible CDC data per month per billing account. Events are delivered at least once, but ordering is not guaranteed. Datastream is administered through the Google Cloud console, CLI, or REST API.