Debezium
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“we're really happy with Debezium in general”
“it is clearly the most mature, most stable option in the space, with the best prospects for long-term survival. Highly recommended”
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“It's worth mentioning debezium https://debezium.io/”
Caveats and dissent
“dezebium and delta lake for quite some time but it would fail compactions”
“smokes debezium in terms of performance”
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From the makers not counted in the ranking
“work towards exactly-once has been done”
“Debezium generally produces each change event exactly once if there are no unclean connector shut-downs.”
“Robustness is a key design goal of Debezium.”
Threads where it came up
- Listen to Database Changes Through the Postgres WAL 7 mentions
- Debezium loses LSN position during PostgreSQL failover and what to do about it 1 mention
- How We Pushed CDC into Postgres 1 mention
- Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) 1 mention
- Marmot – A distributed SQLite server with MySQL wire compatible interface 1 mention
Data: debezium.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 11
“allows you to point Debezium to a promoted stand-by after failover and resume from there, no events will be missed”
“dezebium and delta lake for quite some time but it would fail compactions”
“I was thinking of using Debezium”
“Debezium”
“I thought debezium was mostly for moving around CDC records, not a backup tool per say.”
“we're really happy with Debezium in general”
“it is clearly the most mature, most stable option in the space, with the best prospects for long-term survival. Highly recommended”
“smokes debezium in terms of performance”
“Should I use the WAL/Debezium/etc?”
“It's worth mentioning debezium https://debezium.io/”
“It leverages Kafka, Debezium, and PostgreSQL to process database changes in real time.”