Oracle

Remember when picking a database was as simple as choosing between Oracle or MySQL? Yeah, those days are gone. In 2025, the database landscape looks less like a simple menu and more like an all-you-can-eat buffet with cuisines from every corner of the tech world. We’ve got relational databases doing yoga to become more flexible, NoSQL systems putting on suits to look more enterprise-y, and entirely new categories like vector databases crashing the party to support our AI overlords. ...

The Debezium team has wrapped up 2025 with a substantial release: Debezium 3.4.0.Final. This version brings a rich collection of new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes designed to make change data capture (CDC) more powerful, flexible, and enterprise-ready. Whether you’re streaming data from relational databases, building cloud-native pipelines with Quarkus, or working with spatial data types, this release has something to offer. What Makes Debezium 3.4 Stand Out? Debezium 3.4 is built against Kafka Connect 4.1.1, marking an important milestone for compatibility with the latest Kafka ecosystem. The upgrade addresses a class-loading regression present in earlier Kafka versions, ensuring smoother deployments for teams running modern Kafka infrastructure. ...