How to transfer Data from One SQL server to another with out transactional replication

Question

I have a database connected with website, data from website is inserting in that Database, i need to transfer data from that database to another Primary Database (SQL) on another server in real time (minimum latency). I can not use transactional replication in this case. What are the other alternates to achieve this? Can i integrate DataStreams like Apache kafka etc with SQL server?

Answer 1

Without more detail it's hard to give a full answer. There's what's technically possible, and there's architecturally what actually makes sense :)

Yes you can stream from RDBMS to Kafka, and from Kafka to RDBMS. You can use the Kafka Connect JDBC source and sink . There are also CDC tools (eg Attunity, GoldenGate, etc) that support integration with MS SQL and other RDBMS)

BUT…it depends why you want the data in the second database. Do you need an exact replica of the first? If so DB-DB replication may be a better option. Kafka's a great option if you want to process the data elsewhere and/or persist it in another store. But if you just want MS SQL-MS SQL…Kafka itself may be overkill.