PowerExchange CDC Publisher supports Apache Kafka target environments that use Confluent Schema Registry.

PowerExchange CDC Publisher can generate messages for transaction commit operations, which you can then use to detect transaction boundaries. To enable the generation of commit messages, set the new Formatter.generateCommitDML property. You can optionally set the new Connector.kafkaCommitDmlTopic and Connector.kafkaCommitDmlTopicFiltering properties to control how these messages are sent to topics.

You can add a timestamp column to the generated Avro schema and formatted messages to indicate the time at which the CDC Publisher Formatter processed the change records. You must specify the new

Formatter.formatterAddTimestampColumn=true

property in the cdcPublisherAvro.cfg file. You can optionally set Formatter properties that specify the timestamp format, time zone, and column name.

You can use a source table name as the message key value in messages that PowerExchange CDC Publisher sends to a partitioned Kafka topic. Set the new Connector.kafkaMessageKey property to USE_TABLE_NAME.

PowerExchange CDC Publisher can publish messages to topics in a MapR target messaging system that uses the Kafka 0.9 API. The topics must be in a single MapR stream.