# Install apache-flink-cdc with Homebrew Flink CDC is a streaming data integration tool. Version 3.6.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:apache-flink-cdc ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install apache-flink-cdc ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:apache-flink-cdc - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 3.6.0 - **Source summary:** Flink CDC is a streaming data integration tool - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - flink-cdc (cli) - flink-cdc (alias) ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on all ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 3.6.0 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-cdc-docs-stable/ - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Project history and usage Apache Flink CDC is a distributed data integration tool built on Apache Flink for change data capture, full database synchronization, schema evolution, and YAML-defined real-time or batch data movement. ### Project history Flink CDC began as a connector-oriented ecosystem around Apache Flink change-data-capture jobs, then was donated into the Apache Flink project by Ververica. Apache board records from 2024 describe the Flink community accepting the codebase because CDC use cases with Flink SQL were popular among users. After the donation, Flink CDC became a Flink subproject with its own Apache repository, documentation tree, and releases. The first Apache release called out in ASF board records was cdc-3.1.0 on 2024-05-17. ### Adoption history Flink CDC's adoption follows Flink's broader move from generic stream processing into operational data integration. Its docs emphasize initial historical scans, automatic handoff to change capture, schema evolution, full database sync, and exactly-once processing, which are the operational details that make CDC pipelines production-worthy. The project is younger than Flink itself, so its history is thinner, but its packaging matters because it gives a standalone flink-cdc command for users who want pipeline-style database replication without writing a full Flink application. ### How it is used The Homebrew formula exposes the flink-cdc executable. Apache's docs present Flink CDC as a YAML-driven tool: users describe sources, sinks, routing, transformations, and schema evolution rules, then submit pipelines rather than hand-coding the whole job. Common usage is database-to-database, database-to-lake, or database-to-stream synchronization where a pipeline first scans historical tables and then keeps reading log changes. The official docs also call out sub-second streaming pipelines and exactly-once processing after failures. ### Why package nerds care For package maintainers, Flink CDC is a small command-line front door to a much larger Java streaming stack. The interesting bit is not the binary size, but that it packages a practical CDC workflow separately from the main flink CLI. It also captures a current packaging pattern in the Flink ecosystem: important connectors and adjacent tools live as externalized Apache repositories with their own release cadence, docs, and compatibility constraints. ### Timeline - 2024: Ververica's Flink CDC codebase is accepted into Apache Flink. - 2024: cdc-3.1.0 is released as the first Apache Flink CDC release noted in ASF board records. - 2026: Flink downloads list Apache Flink CDC as a separately released Flink component. ### Related projects - Apache Flink is the execution engine and community umbrella for Flink CDC. - Debezium, Kafka, Apache Paimon, JDBC databases, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and data lake sinks are common adjacent technologies in CDC pipelines. ### Sources - - - - ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger risk:** blue / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** apache-flink-cdc - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Related links - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [maxwell](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/maxwell/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: change-data-capture, cli, data, streaming. - [topicctl](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/topicctl/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, streaming. - [yozefu](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/yozefu/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, streaming. - [apache-arrow](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/apache-arrow/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: apache, cli, data. - [apache-flink](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/apache-flink/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: apache, cli, data. - [apache-geode](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/apache-geode/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: apache, cli, data. - [burrow](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/burrow/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, streaming. - [conduit](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/conduit/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, streaming. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. 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