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IBM CDC Replication vs LinkedIn Databus

IBM CDC Replication

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LinkedIn Databus

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Free plan—Yes
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Web—Yes
WindowsYes—
LinuxYes—
API—Yes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published01
Spec score · Change Data Capture Software5.8 (#20)8.2 (#7)

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IBM CDC Replication

No plans published.

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LinkedIn Databus

  • Databus (Apache 2.0 open source)Free

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IBM CDC Replication

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LinkedIn Databus

LinkedIn Databus is a self-hosted, source-agnostic distributed change data capture system. It captures and transports changes to primary data so downstream systems can process them. Relays serve change events, clients process them, and bootstrap servers supply historical events for consumers catching up. Consumers can begin at an arbitrary point in the stream, use full-data bootstrap, and consume partitions while preserving source consistency.

The project describes in-order, at-least-once delivery with high availability, low-millisecond transport latency, and throughput of thousands of events per second per server. It supports Oracle sources and has been used for search and social-graph indexes and member-profile read replicas. The wiki documents a MySQL adapter as a proof of concept, not a LinkedIn production deployment. Databus is free, licensed under Apache 2.0, and available for self-hosting. Building it requires Gradle 1.0 or later and Oracle's ojdbc6 driver version 11.2.0.2.0, which is obtained under the Oracle Technology Network License. The repository points to a wiki for documentation and examples; it does not state a support service.

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