Capturing CDC in Talend without using CDC Components

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The ability to capture only the changed source data and to move it from a source to a target system(s) in real-time is known as Change Data Capture (CDC).

Here is the method used to capture the CDC without using CDC components in Talend and by comparing the source and target to capture the inserts, deletes, and updates individually.

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Below is an example of how inserts,updates and deletes are captured.

Considering source to be a transactional data source and target to be a target table which captures the changes in the source.

  1. Capture Inserts
  2. Capturing Inner Join rejects from join of source and target.

    Here the source becomes the main link.

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    CDC Talend

    Source consists of 4 records. And target consists of 3 records, which implies that there is one new record in the source which is an insert.

    Source
    Source
    Target

    Target

    Tmap settings for capturing the inserts

    tMap
    tMap

    Output from the above step

    CDC in Talend

  3. Capture Deletes
  4. Deletes are obtained by performing an inner join between target and the source and capturing the rejects.

    Here, the target becomes the main link.

    logic for deletes

    logic for deletes
    Target

    Target
    Source
    Source

    logic for deletes
    Logic for deletes

    Output from the join to capture reject :

    Output

  5. Capturing updates using inner join between source and target :

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For capturing the updates a CRC component is used, which generates a CRC bit based on the columns which are subjected to change. Any change in the columns selected will also change the CRC bit. Hence this CRC bit is also compared to identify the update.

Logic for Updates

Logic for updates
Source

Source
Target

Target

Settings in CRC component :

Settings

Logic to fetch the updates in TMap

updates in tMap

Ouput for capturing deletes

Output for capturing deletes

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