Replicating data (Data Replication)

Use Data Replication to integrate and synchronize data. Data Replication provides near-real-time data delivery with low impact to sources.

Tech preview This is a technology preview and is not yet supported for use in production environments.

Overview

Required service: Data Replication. You must create and deploy a service instance of Data Replication in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service to replicate your data. For more information, see Creating and managing IBM Cloud services.
Data formats: Data Replication works with connections to and from select types of data sources and formats. For more information, see Supported Data Replication connections.
Credentials: Data Replication uses your IBM Cloud credentials to connect to the service.

The Data Replication is configured as an asset type that you add to a project. After you create a Data Replication service instance, you need to start running the replication asset, which runs continuously.

Data Replication details page

You can use the multi-cloud technology and architecture to replicate data to and from supported data sources and targets.

The beta version of Data Replication includes the following key features:

Managed cloud service for simplicity, automatic provisioning, service availability, lights out operations
- Simplified NEW user experience
- Intuitive UI
- Supports copy of schema or schema/table(s) business goal
Cloud platform integration
- Standard IBM look and feel for ease of adoption
Simplifies operations with DDL handling
- New tables that are created on selected source schemas are replicated
- Table level DDL - new columns, drop columns, and others are replicated
Baked in security by using security standards of the IBM Cloud platform
Preserves replication core values: Efficient captures from sources, low-latency data delivery, and performance

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Parent topic: Preparing data