CDC Connectors for Apache Flink^®

CDC Connectors for Apache Flink^® is a set of source connectors for Apache Flink^®, ingesting changes from different databases using change data capture (CDC). CDC Connectors for Apache Flink^® integrates Debezium as the engine to capture data changes. So it can fully leverage the ability of Debezium. See more about what is Debezium.

This README is meant as a brief walkthrough on the core features of CDC Connectors for Apache Flink^®. For a fully detailed documentation, please see Documentation.

Supported (Tested) Databases

Connector	Database	Driver
mongodb-cdc	MongoDB: 3.6, 4.x, 5.0, 6.0	MongoDB Driver: 4.3.4
mysql-cdc	MySQL: 5.6, 5.7, 8.0.x RDS MySQL: 5.6, 5.7, 8.0.x PolarDB MySQL: 5.6, 5.7, 8.0.x Aurora MySQL: 5.6, 5.7, 8.0.x MariaDB: 10.x PolarDB X: 2.0.1	JDBC Driver: 8.0.28
oceanbase-cdc	OceanBase CE: 3.1.x, 4.x OceanBase EE: 2.x, 3.x, 4.x	OceanBase Driver: 2.4.x
oracle-cdc	Oracle: 11, 12, 19, 21	Oracle Driver: 19.3.0.0
postgres-cdc	PostgreSQL: 9.6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14	JDBC Driver: 42.5.1
sqlserver-cdc	Sqlserver: 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019	JDBC Driver: 9.4.1.jre8
tidb-cdc	TiDB: 5.1.x, 5.2.x, 5.3.x, 5.4.x, 6.0.0	JDBC Driver: 8.0.27
Db2-cdc	Db2: 11.5	Db2 Driver: 11.5.0.0
Vitess-cdc	Vitess: 8.0.x, 9.0.x	MySql JDBC Driver: 8.0.26

Features

1. Supports reading database snapshot and continues to read transaction logs with exactly-once processing even failures happen.
2. CDC connectors for DataStream API, users can consume changes on multiple databases and tables in a single job without Debezium and Kafka deployed.
3. CDC connectors for Table/SQL API, users can use SQL DDL to create a CDC source to monitor changes on a single table.

Quick Start

Usage for CDC Streaming ELT Framework

The example shows how to continuously synchronize data, including snapshot data and incremental data, from multiple business tables in MySQL database to Doris for creating the ODS layer.

1. Download and extract the flink-cdc-3.0.tar file to a local directory.
2. Download the required CDC Pipeline Connector JAR from Maven and place it in the lib directory.
3. Configure the FLINK_HOME environment variable to load the Flink cluster configuration from the flink-conf.yaml file located in the $FLINK_HOME/conf directory.

export FLINK_HOME=/path/to/your/flink/home

4. Write Flink CDC task YAML.

source:
  type: mysql
  host: localhost
  port: 3306
  username: admin
  password: pass
  tables: db0.commodity, db1.user_table_[0-9]+, [app|web]_order_\.*

sink:
  type: doris
  fenodes: FE_IP:HTTP_PORT
  username: admin
  password: pass

pipeline:
  name: mysql-sync-doris
  parallelism: 4

5. Submit the job to Flink cluster.

# Submit Pipeline
$ ./bin/flink-cdc.sh mysql-to-doris.yaml
Pipeline "mysql-sync-doris" is submitted with Job ID "DEADBEEF".

During the execution of the flink-cdc.sh script, the CDC task configuration is parsed and translated into a DataStream job, which is then submitted to the specified Flink cluster.

Usage for Source Connectors

Usage for Table/SQL API

We need several steps to setup a Flink cluster with the provided connector.

1. Setup a Flink cluster with version 1.14+ and Java 8+ installed.
2. Download the connector SQL jars from the Download page (or build yourself).
3. Put the downloaded jars under FLINK_HOME/lib/.
4. Restart the Flink cluster.

The example shows how to create a MySQL CDC source in Flink SQL Client and execute queries on it.

-- creates a mysql cdc table source
CREATE TABLE mysql_binlog (
 id INT NOT NULL,
 name STRING,
 description STRING,
 weight DECIMAL(10,3)
) WITH (
 'connector' = 'mysql-cdc',
 'hostname' = 'localhost',
 'port' = '3306',
 'username' = 'flinkuser',
 'password' = 'flinkpw',
 'database-name' = 'inventory',
 'table-name' = 'products'
);

-- read snapshot and binlog data from mysql, and do some transformation, and show on the client
SELECT id, UPPER(name), description, weight FROM mysql_binlog;

Usage for DataStream API

Include following Maven dependency (available through Maven Central):

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.flink</groupId>
  <!-- add the dependency matching your database -->
  <artifactId>flink-connector-mysql-cdc</artifactId>
  <!-- The dependency is available only for stable releases, SNAPSHOT dependencies need to be built based on master or release branches by yourself. -->
  <version>2.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

import org.apache.flink.api.common.eventtime.WatermarkStrategy;
import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.environment.StreamExecutionEnvironment;
import org.apache.flink.cdc.debezium.JsonDebeziumDeserializationSchema;
import org.apache.flink.cdc.connectors.mysql.source.MySqlSource;

public class MySqlSourceExample {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    MySqlSource<String> mySqlSource = MySqlSource.<String>builder()
            .hostname("yourHostname")
            .port(yourPort)
            .databaseList("yourDatabaseName") // set captured database
            .tableList("yourDatabaseName.yourTableName") // set captured table
            .username("yourUsername")
            .password("yourPassword")
            .deserializer(new JsonDebeziumDeserializationSchema()) // converts SourceRecord to JSON String
            .build();

    StreamExecutionEnvironment env = StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment();

    // enable checkpoint
    env.enableCheckpointing(3000);

    env
      .fromSource(mySqlSource, WatermarkStrategy.noWatermarks(), "MySQL Source")
      // set 4 parallel source tasks
      .setParallelism(4)
      .print().setParallelism(1); // use parallelism 1 for sink to keep message ordering

    env.execute("Print MySQL Snapshot + Binlog");
  }
}

Building from source

• Prerequisites:
  • git
  • Maven
  • At least Java 8

git clone https://github.com/ververica/flink-cdc-connectors.git
cd flink-cdc-connectors
mvn clean install -DskipTests

The dependencies are now available in your local .m2 repository.

License

The code in this repository is licensed under the Apache Software License 2.

Contributing

CDC Connectors for Apache Flink^® welcomes anyone that wants to help out in any way, whether that includes reporting problems, helping with documentation, or contributing code changes to fix bugs, add tests, or implement new features. You can report problems to request features in the GitHub Issues.

Code Contribute

1. Left comment under the issue that you want to take
2. Fork Flink CDC project to your GitHub repositories
3. Clone and compile your Flink CDC project

git clone https://github.com/your_name/flink-cdc-connectors.git
cd flink-cdc-connectors
mvn clean install -DskipTests

4. Check to a new branch and start your work

git checkout -b my_feature
-- develop and commit

5. Push your branch to your github

git push origin my_feature

6. Open a PR to https://github.com/ververica/flink-cdc-connectors

Code Style

Code Formatting

You need to install the google-java-format plugin. Spotless together with google-java-format is used to format the codes.

It is recommended to automatically format your code by applying the following settings:

1. Go to "Settings" → "Other Settings" → "google-java-format Settings".
2. Tick the checkbox to enable the plugin.
3. Change the code style to "Android Open Source Project (AOSP) style".
4. Go to "Settings" → "Tools" → "Actions on Save".
5. Under "Formatting Actions", select "Optimize imports" and "Reformat file".
6. From the "All file types list" next to "Reformat code", select "Java".

For earlier IntelliJ IDEA versions, the step 4 to 7 will be changed as follows.

• 4.Go to "Settings" → "Other Settings" → "Save Actions".
• 5.Under "General", enable your preferred settings for when to format the code, e.g. "Activate save actions on save".
• 6.Under "Formatting Actions", select "Optimize imports" and "Reformat file".
• 7.Under "File Path Inclusions", add an entry for .*\.java to avoid formatting other file types. Then the whole project could be formatted by command mvn spotless:apply.

Checkstyle

Checkstyle is used to enforce static coding guidelines.

1. Go to "Settings" → "Tools" → "Checkstyle".
2. Set "Scan Scope" to "Only Java sources (including tests)".
3. For "Checkstyle Version" select "8.14".
4. Under "Configuration File" click the "+" icon to add a new configuration.
5. Set "Description" to "Flink cdc".
6. Select "Use a local Checkstyle file" and link it to the file tools/maven/checkstyle.xml which is located within your cloned repository.
7. Select "Store relative to project location" and click "Next".
8. Configure the property checkstyle.suppressions.file with the value suppressions.xml and click "Next".
9. Click "Finish".
10. Select "Flink cdc" as the only active configuration file and click "Apply".

You can now import the Checkstyle configuration for the Java code formatter.

1. Go to "Settings" → "Editor" → "Code Style" → "Java".
2. Click the gear icon next to "Scheme" and select "Import Scheme" → "Checkstyle Configuration".
3. Navigate to and select tools/maven/checkstyle.xml located within your cloned repository.

Then you could click "View" → "Tool Windows" → "Checkstyle" and find the "Check Module" button in the opened tool window to validate checkstyle. Or you can use the command mvn clean compile checkstyle:checkstyle to validate.

Documentation Contribute

Flink cdc documentations locates at docs/content.

The contribution step is the same as the code contribution. We use markdown as the source code of the document.

Community

• DingTalk Chinese User Group

  You can search the group number [33121212] or scan the following QR code to join in the group.

  

Documents

To get started, please see https://ververica.github.io/flink-cdc-connectors/