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Quickly Complete Data Synchronization from Alibaba Cloud RDS MySQL to ClickHouse

Cloud database RDS MySQL and cloud database ClickHouse are two popular database solutions launched by Alibaba Cloud, providing users with reliable data storage solutions and analysis | warehouse solutions. This article introduces how to quickly synchronize data from RDS MySQL to cloud database ClickHouse.

Why Synchronize Data from RDS MySQL to Cloud Database ClickHouse?

The combination of cloud database RDS MySQL and cloud database ClickHouse has great potential. Cloud database RDS MySQL provides a relational database that is easy to set up, operate, and scale, while cloud database ClickHouse focuses on data analysis and data warehousing, supporting the processing of large amounts of data in a short time, while also supporting real-time OLAP processing, with quite excellent performance.

By synchronizing data from RDS MySQL instances to ClickHouse instances, you can take advantage of ClickHouse's powerful data analysis capabilities to conduct in-depth analysis and mining of RDS MySQL data, helping businesses obtain valuable analysis results, thereby driving better decision-making and ultimately improving business results.

Data synchronization between these two data sources is a relatively complex task, involving data type conversion, handling of DDL operations, handling of change | delete (UPDATE, DELETE) operations, implementation of real-time synchronization, and other aspects, while also needing to balance synchronization performance and ensure the stability of the source library business, all of which are difficult points in synchronization technology.

What is NineData? How to Solve the Synchronization Problem from MySQL to ClickHouse?

NineData data replication product is a cross-homogeneous data source data migration, data replication, data integration solution launched by Jiuzhang Arithmetic Company, supporting dozens of homogeneous and heterogeneous data sources, with multi-cloud multi-source support, powerful functions, strong performance, strong data consistency, and observable and controllable features.

NineData data replication has the following advantages:

  • Powerful data transformation and mapping capabilities: NineData provides powerful data transformation and mapping capabilities to address the format and structural differences between RDS MySQL and ClickHouse, ensuring the consistency and accuracy of data during the synchronization process.

  • Outstanding real-time synchronization performance: NineData uses advanced data synchronization technology to ensure that data is synchronized to ClickHouse in real-time, greatly reducing data latency, allowing your decisions to be based on the latest data.

  • Simple configuration operation: The ready-to-use SaaS platform provides services, with an intuitive graphical interface that allows you to easily configure synchronization tasks, without the need to write complex code, reducing the operation threshold and the chance of errors.

  • Reliable data consistency: Through the accompanying data consistency comparison mechanism, it is easy to discover data inconsistencies that occur during the synchronization process, and at the same time, it provides a one-click repair function to provide a reliable guarantee for your business data.

  • Flexible customization options: Synchronization tasks can be flexibly customized according to business needs, choosing full synchronization or incremental synchronization to meet the data synchronization requirements of different scenarios.

  • Observable and controllable: NineData provides a powerful monitoring and alert system, notifying you of the status and problems of synchronization tasks in a timely manner, allowing you to respond quickly and resolve potential synchronization risks.

  • Stable operation: Dynamically monitors the load pressure of the source database and dynamically adjusts the replication task load according to the pressure threshold, ensuring the stability of the business.

  • Secure and reliable: The NineData platform has passed the national public security department's third-level network security level protection certification, providing a high level of protection for enterprise information security.

Operation Steps

It only takes three simple steps to complete the data synchronization from RDS MySQL to cloud database ClickHouse.

  1. Add the cloud database RDS MySQL instance to NineData.
  2. Add the cloud database ClickHouse instance to NineData.
  3. Configure the data replication task from the cloud database RDS MySQL to the cloud database ClickHouse.

Demonstration

  • Configure replication tasks

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  • View replication tasks

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