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Categories Kafka Connector
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 18, 2021

built-in CDC to Kafka

Hi, it is still hard to set up a MongoDB oplog CDC connection to Kafka to publish changes from e.g. a microservice-local MongoDB. You typically have to use Kafka Connect and either the official MongoDB Atlas Connector, or the Debezium Open Source Connector. One of the databases competing with MongoDB, CockroachDB, has a *built-in* feature to publish "change feeds" to Kafka (see https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/stream-data-out-of-cockroachdb-using-changefeeds.html). I'd love to see a similar feature for MongoDB, since this would allow us to keep MongoDB and Kafka in sync much easier and more conveniently - without having to care about yet another (probably centralized) cluster (=Kafka Connect). Best regards, Ralph Debusmann (ralph.debusmann@bosch.com)