How does Streamkap handle schema changes in source databases without manual intervention?
Streamkap includes automated schema drift handling, which means it can automatically detect and adapt to schema updates and data normalization changes in your source databases, ensuring continuous data flow without requiring manual configuration.
Can Streamkap be deployed within a private cloud environment for enhanced data control?
Yes, Streamkap offers deployment options that include deploying within your own cloud environment, providing full data control and meeting specific security and compliance requirements such as SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI DSS.
What specific types of in-flight data transformations can be performed using Streamkap's stream processing capabilities?
Streamkap's stream processing allows for a variety of in-flight transformations using SQL, Python, or JavaScript. Common use cases include data hashing, masking sensitive information, performing aggregations, joining data streams, and unnesting complex JSON structures.
How does Streamkap's CDC event streaming differ from traditional batch replication tools in terms of application use cases?
Unlike batch replication tools that provide periodic snapshots, Streamkap's CDC streams every insert, update, and delete as a real-time Kafka event. This enables true event-driven architectures for use cases like real-time application synchronization, zero-downtime database migrations, and multi-consumer event streams for analytics, search, and caching, rather than just data copies.
Is it possible to both produce database changes to Kafka and consume events from Kafka into other destinations using Streamkap?
Yes, Streamkap supports bidirectional Kafka integration. It can produce CDC events from your databases to Kafka topics for downstream consumers and also consume events from Kafka topics, routing them to various destinations such as databases, data warehouses, or other services.