zendesk/maxwell

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Maxwell's Daemon is a change data capture (CDC) application that reads MySQL binlogs and emits row-level changes as JSON to Kafka, Kinesis, and other streaming platforms. It is a self-contained Java daemon deployable via command line, Docker, or Homebrew.

Use cases

• stream mysql binlog changes to kafka as
• maintain an audit log of all database changes
• build or expire caches from database change events
• keep a search index in sync with mysql
• etl data out of mysql into streaming platforms
• enable inter-service communication via change events

When to choose

• you need row-level change data capture from mysql or mariadb
• you want change events delivered to kafka, kinesis, or similar producers
• you need an audit trail of every insert, update, and delete
• you want a lightweight, self-hosted cdc daemon without heavy infrastructure

When to avoid

• your source database is not mysql or mariadb
• you need a gui or managed cdc service
• you only need periodic batch exports rather than real-time streaming
• you require full-table initial syncs with complex transformations out of the box

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etl streaming message-queue database serialization databases big-data developer-tools jvm self-hosted change-data-capture mysql-binlog kafka-producer cdc kinesis audit-log data-engineering docker linux macos

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