Postgres CDC Showdown: Conduit Crushes Kafka Connect

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raulb_ · 7h ago

Conduit is an open-source data streaming tool written in Go, and we put it to the test with Kafka Connect in a Postgres to Kafka pipeline. We not only were faster in both CDC and Snapshot, but we also consumed 98% less memory when doing CDC. Here's a blog post about our benchmark so you can try it yourself.

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Postgres CDC Showdown: Conduit Crushes Kafka Connect

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