Is Debezium the only good CDC tool out there?
I have a fairly simple data stack and am looking at integrating a CDC solution but I really dont want to touch Kafka just for this. Are there any easier alternatives?
You don't need Kafka in order to run Debezium. While that certainly is the most common deployment, you can use Debezium also with things like Kinesis, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, or even plain HTTP sinks, all via Debezium Server (https://debezium.io/documentation/reference/stable/operation...). You even can embed it as a library into your application for the highest degree of flexibility.
That said, streaming events into Kafka (or something like it), rather than pushing change events directly to destinations like Snowflake has big advantages when it comes to reprocessing data, setting up additional consumers, etc.
Except when a new column is added upstream and DMS inserts the new column not at the end but before the dms timestamp fields, ruining the index based loads of DMS files
