# Debezium

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/debezium/

10 people recommended Debezium in Hacker News comments, 4 had mixed feelings and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 12 months, in 5 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

6 of the 10 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Listen to Database Changes Through the Postgres WAL”.

**Verdict:** Open-source change data capture tool that streams database changes to Kafka; people call it mature and stable. Common caveat: complex to configure and manage.

Summary written by Claude from 18 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 17 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Mature, stable and robust (2 comments in the sample): "it is clearly the most mature, most stable option in the space, with the best prospects for long-term survival" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953298)) "Robustness is a key design goal of Debezium." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45952126))
- Publishes database changes to Kafka (2 comments in the sample): "This gives you a pretty seamless onramp to event streaming tools as you scale." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45793962)) "It allows to publish all changes from the db to Kafka." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45951323))
- Default choice unless strong reason (2 comments in the sample): "It is probably best to use that unless there is a strong reason against." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955487)) "Now that I know, I would recommend defaulting to it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45956255))

## What people warn about

- Complex to set up and manage (2 comments in the sample): "the setup alone in a kubernetes cluster with strimzi kafka connect" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956680)) "can be complex to configure and manage" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343696))

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Debezium", https://hackerapproved.com/p/debezium/ (10 recommend, 4 mixed, 3 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.