---
title: "Building Kafka-Less Data Integration Pipelines with Debezium"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-kafka-less-data-integration-pipelines-with-debezium-5yi0fimdi
source_url: https://debezium.io/blog/2026/07/06/kafka-less-migration
type: article
source: "Debezium"
published: 2026-07-06T19:23:15.621Z
updated: 2026-07-06T19:23:40.266Z
tags: ["java", "postgresql", "data-engineering", "debezium", "change-data-capture"]
reading_time: 12
upvotes: 1
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Building Kafka-Less Data Integration Pipelines with Debezium

**[Debezium](https://daily.dev/sources/debezium)** · 12 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

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.

## Full article

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