Data Replication
Use Data Replication to integrate and synchronize data. Data Replication provides near-real-time data delivery with low impact to sources.
Overview
- Required service
- Data Replication
- Data formats
- Data Replication works with connections to and from select types of data sources and formats. For more information, see Supported Data Replication connections.
The Data Replication is configured as an asset type that you add to a project. After you create and install a Data Replication instance, you need to start running the replication asset, which runs continuously.
What's new
You can use the multi-cloud technology and architecture to replicate source databases from Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Oracle. You can replicate to Db2 on Cloud, Db2 Warehouse, and Apache Kafka.
Data Replication includes the following key features:
- Managed cloud service for simplicity, automatic provisioning, service availability, lights out operations
- Simplified NEW user experience
- Intuitive UI
- Supports copy of schema or schema/table(s) business goal
- Cloud platform integration
- Standard IBM look and feel for ease of adoption
- Simplifies operations with DDL handling
- New tables that are created on selected source schemas are replicated
- Table level DDL - new columns, drop columns, and others are replicated
- Baked in security by using security standards of the IBM Cloud platform
- Preserves replication core values: Efficient captures from sources, low-latency data delivery, and performance