Today, we’re dialing up the number of native CDC sources to two with the release of a shiny new MySQL source! 🐬 The new source allows you to replicate data from your MySQL database to Materialize in real-time, and start building interactive data apps, better customer experiences, and other use cases ripe for fresh data.
How does it work?
The source uses MySQL’s binlog replication protocol to continually ingest
changes resulting from INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE operations in your
upstream database. As a MySQL user, this comes with a few benefits:
No additional infrastructure: ingest MySQL change data into Materialize in real-time with no architectural changes or additional operational overhead.
Transactional consistency: we’re all about correctness, so the new source ensures that transactions in MySQL are respected downstream. Materialize will never show partial results based on partially replicated transactions.
Incrementally updated materialized views: materialized views are not supported in (vanilla) MySQL, so you can use Materialize as a read-replica to build views on top of your MySQL data that are efficiently maintained and always up-to-date.
How do you get started?
Once you configure your upstream database for replication, setting up a MySQL source in Materialize really just takes three SQL statements:
CREATE SECRET mysqlpass AS '<MYSQL_PASSWORD>';
CREATE CONNECTION mysql_connection TO MYSQL (
HOST 'instance.foo000.us-west-1.rds.amazonaws.com',
PORT 3306,
USER 'materialize',
PASSWORD SECRET mysqlpass
);
CREATE SOURCE mz_source
FROM MYSQL CONNECTION mysql_connection
FOR ALL TABLES;We aim to bring this down to zero SQL statements by supporting MySQL source creation in the Materialize console soon! For an overview of what is and isn’t supported in Private Preview, as well as integration guides for common MySQL managed services, check out the documentation.
Ready to give it a go? Sign up for a 14-day free trial of Materialize, and ping our team on Slack to get early access to the feature!