Debezium, an open-source distributed platform for change data capture (CDC), converts records from existing databases into event streams, enabling applications to detect and respond to database row-level changes. This release of version 2.0 introduces many changes: Java 11 is now required; incremental snapshots are improved with stopping and pause/resume logic; transaction metadata are enhanced with a new field, ts_ms, containing the transaction timestamp; multi-tenancy databases are supported out of the box; index handling is improved, in case the primary key is not defined, Debezium may refer to columns such as CTID for PostgreSQL or ROWID in Oracle that are generated automatically by the database; and the introduction of a new debezium-storage for file- and Kafka-based database history and offset storage.
