Building Kafka-Less Data Integration Pipelines with Debezium

Debezium now supports Kafka-less data integration pipelines via a JDBC sink in Debezium Server (DS) and the Debezium Management Platform (DMP). The tutorial walks through setting up a real-time data replication pipeline from PostgreSQL to MySQL using Docker, with no Kafka cluster required. Key configuration options like upsert mode, primary key handling, schema evolution, and delete propagation are explained. The same setup can be deployed on Kubernetes using the Debezium Operator CRD or managed through the DMP UI and REST API. Current limitations include no parallel processing (tasks.max > 1) and source-side filtering instead of topic-based consumer filtering.