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Canal is a free, self-hosted change-data-capture project for MySQL. It simulates a replica, reads binary-log events, and delivers incremental records for database mirroring, real-time backup, index maintenance, cache refresh, and business-logic processing. Kafka and RocketMQ delivery, additional RabbitMQ and Pulsar server modes, multilingual clients, Canal Admin’s Web UI, Prometheus monitoring, Docker images, and SSL/TLS options support varied deployments. Its Apache-2.0 license and compatibility with several MySQL-family versions add flexibility.

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   VMware Workstation Pro

   Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWindows

   Desktop virtual machines on Windows or Linux — VMware Workstation Pro runs x86_64 virtual machines with snapshots, nested virtualization, and GPU acceleration instead of parsing MySQL binlogs.

   Free plan Visit site
2. 2 A

   Antrea

   Free plan Open source APILinuxSelf-hosted+1

   Kubernetes networking with advanced policy controls — Antrea provides Kubernetes pod networking, Open vSwitch data planes, tiered policies, multi-cluster federation, and diagnostics rather than MySQL change capture.

   Open source Visit site
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   Calico Open Source

   Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWindows

   Kubernetes security across mixed workloads — Calico covers containers, virtual machines, and bare metal with policy tiers, staged policies, multiple data planes, flow UI, and ingress controls.

   Free plan Visit site
4. 4 C

   CNI Plugins

   Free plan LinuxWindows

   Building or integrating container network plugins — CNI Plugins supplies reference interface, IPAM, meta, Windows, Go-library, and command-line components rather than a MySQL CDC service.

   Free plan Visit site
5. 5 F

   Flannel

   Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWindows

   Simple Kubernetes layer-three networking — Flannel allocates host subnet leases and forwards container traffic through VXLAN, host-gw, WireGuard, or UDP backends.

   Free plan Visit site
6. 6 K

   kube-network-policies

   Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted

   Userspace Kubernetes network-policy enforcement — kube-network-policies evaluates selected pod traffic with NFQUEUE and nftables, supporting ANP, BANP, JSON logs, and extensible evaluators.

   Open source Visit site
7. 7 C

   Cello CNI

   Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted

   Volcengine VPC pod networking — Cello builds Pod networks with secondary ENIs, Cilium services and policies, eBPF, and scheduler-aware network resources instead of MySQL CDC.

   Free plan Visit site
8. 8 T

   TiCDC

   Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+1
   8.5 Open source Visit site
9. 9 A

   Apache Flink CDC

   Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+1
   7.7 Open source Visit site
10. 10 D

    Debezium

    Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1
    7.6 Open source Visit site
11. 11 D

    dbmazz

    Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted
    7.5 Free plan Visit site
12. 12 E

    Estuary

    Free plan APILinuxMac+3
    7.5 Free plan · paid from $100/mo · 30-day trial Visit site
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    Decodable

    Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb
    7.4 Free plan · paid from $0.12 Visit site
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    Google Cloud Datastream

    Free plan APIWeb
    7.2 Free plan Visit site
15. 15 L

    LinkedIn Databus

    Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb
    7.2 Free plan Visit site
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    PeerDB

    Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb
    7.1 Free plan · paid from $250/mo Visit site
17. 17 M

    Maxwell's Daemon

    Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted
    7.0 Open source Visit site
18. 18 O

    OpenLogReplicator

    Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted
    7.0 Free plan Visit site
19. 19 P

    pgstream

    Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted
    7.0 Open source Visit site
20. 20 S

    Sequin

    Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1
    7.0 Open source Visit site
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    Striim

    by Striim

    Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb
    6.8 Free plan Visit site
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    Oracle GoldenGate

    Free plan LinuxWeb
    6.4 Free plan · paid from $1.34 Visit site
23. 23 S

    SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management by OpenText

    by SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management by OpenText

    Paid AndroidiPhoneLinux+4
    5.5 Pricing on request Visit site
24. 24 T

    Tantor Low-Code CDC

    Paid Self-hostedWeb
    4.7 Pricing on request Visit site
25. 25 I

    IRI Ripcurrent

    Paid LinuxWindows
    4.6 Pricing on request Visit site
26. 26 I

    IBM CDC Replication

    Paid LinuxWindows
    4.4 Visit site
27. 27 P

    Precisely Connect

    Paid LinuxWindows
    4.4 Pricing on request Visit site
28. 28 Q

    Quest SharePlex

    Paid LinuxWindows
    4.3 Pricing on request Visit site
29. 29 S

    SAP Integration Suite, API Management

    by SAP

    Paid
    4.2 Visit site

Readers usually seek alternatives when their priority is Kubernetes networking rather than database replication. Canal’s deployment centers on API, Linux, macOS, and self-hosted environments, while its Docker quick start runs one instance per container by default. Before switching, decide whether you need binlog-based records or pod connectivity and security. Compare each option’s network-policy model, traffic encryption, observability, workload coverage, data plane, operating systems, and integration requirements. These products address container networking, policy enforcement, address allocation, or VPC connectivity, so the better choice depends on infrastructure goals rather than change-data capture.

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