MapR Streams is a distributed messaging system for streaming event data at a large scale. MapR Streams targets use the Apache Kafka API to receive data from applications that act as Kafka producers.
PowerExchange CDC Publisher, as a producer application, publishes streams of messages that contain change data to MapR topics in a manner that is similar to how CDC Publisher publishes changes to Apache Kafka. However, the tasks that you perform to prepare the MapR target environment are slightly different.
For example, MapR organizes topics into streams. You must define the stream that contains the topics to which messages will be sent before you run the CDC Publisher process and create or generate topics. Also, you must set some environment variables.
For information about Kafka use cases, configuration, and implementation, see the Apache Kafka documentation at
https://mapr.com/docs/.