Building Kafka-Less Data Integration Pipelines with Debezium

Debezium is often associated with Kafka, and while this was true in the project’s early days, it is no longer the case. We explained in detail, together with several other common misconceptions, in our recent article, “What Nobody Explains About Debezium in 2026 (But Should)” . In this article, we’ll build on that discussion by showing the recently added JDBC sink support in Debezium Server (DS) and the Debezium Management Platform (DMP) , which opens up Kafka-less data replication and migration scenarios.