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## Backgrounds
In the early days, Alibaba B2B Company needed to syncrhonize servers' data between the United States and Hangzhou, China. Previous database synchronization machenism was based on the `trigger` to obtain incremental updates. Starting from 2010, Alibaba Group began to use dataset **binary log** to get the incremental updates and synchronize data across servers, which gave birth to our incremental subscription & consumption service (available now in Alibaba Cloud) and started a new era.
## Introduction
# Introduction
**Canal** is a high performance data synchronization system based on MySQL binary log. Canal is widely used in Alibaba group (including [https://www.taobao.com](https://www.taobao.com/)) to provide reliable low latency incremental data pipeline.
**Canal Server** is capable of parsing MySQL binlog and subscribe to the data change, while **Canal Client** can be implemented to broadcast the change to anywhere, e.g. database and [Apache Kafka](https://kafka.apache.org/).
It has following features:
1. Support all platforms.
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5. Both Canal Server and Canal Client support HA/Scalability, powered by [Apache ZooKeeper](https://zookeeper.apache.org/)
6. Docker Supports.
## Backgrounds
In the early days, Alibaba B2B Company needed to syncrhonize servers' data between the United States and Hangzhou, China. Previous database synchronization machenism was based on the `trigger` to obtain incremental updates. Starting from 2010, Alibaba Group began to use dataset **binary log** to get the incremental updates and synchronize data across servers, which gave birth to our incremental subscription & consumption service (available now in Alibaba Cloud) and started a new era.
## How it works