Couchbase XDCR vs Debezium

Couchbase XDCR is a web-based service for replicating database changes between clusters. It supports change data capture and bidirectional synchronization, allowing changes to move in both directions. The deployment model is hybrid. Couchbase lists plans with hourly per-node billing, cluster minimums, and backup intervals. Basic is $0.15 a month, billed from $0.15/hr per node, with a one-node minimum and a 24-hour backup interval. Developer Pro is $0.35 a month, billed from $0.35/hr per node, with a one-node minimum, three nodes for multiple cluster availability zones, and backup intervals up to one hour. Enterprise is $0.49 a month, billed from $0.49/hr per node, with a three-node minimum and backup intervals up to one hour. Couchbase Enterprise is $0.66 a month, billed from $0.66/hr per node through cloud marketplaces, and includes Couchbase Server 8. A Free plan is described as one node and 8GB, although the pricing facts mark no free plan. Couchbase was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Jose.

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.