diff --git a/Developer Guide.md b/Developer Guide-en.md similarity index 100% rename from Developer Guide.md rename to Developer Guide-en.md diff --git a/Backgrounds.md b/Introduction-en.md similarity index 99% rename from Backgrounds.md rename to Introduction-en.md index 2e8f15e..8be5567 100644 --- a/Backgrounds.md +++ b/Introduction-en.md @@ -1,17 +1,9 @@ -## 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. @@ -21,7 +13,9 @@ It has following features: 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