For relational database and data warehouse targets, you can use Audit Apply mode to audit SQL changes made to a source by using an audit log table in the target database.
For
Apache Kafka,
Cloudera,
Flat File,
and
Hortonworks
targets, Audit Apply is the only available apply mode that you can use to replicate data and metadata. The target output files and Kafka messages contain data and metadata similar to an audit log table.
With Audit Apply mode, you do not need to perform an initial synchronization of targets prior to starting change data replication.