Flydata

Flydata is a brand name used by a technology company that provides real-time data integration and replication solutions. The core offering is a platform designed to collect, transport, and synchronize data between operational databases and analytics platforms, with an emphasis on low-latency streaming and accuracy. The service is commonly described as using change data capture (CDC) to stream incremental updates rather than reloading entire datasets.

The platform typically supports a range of source systems, including relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle, as well as cloud-based databases. Target destinations usually include cloud data warehouses and data lakes, such as Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, and similar analytics environments. Features often cited include pre-built connectors, data pipelines, basic transformations, schema evolution handling, monitoring dashboards, and alerting. Security considerations commonly highlighted include encryption in transit, access controls, and audit logs.

In operation, Flydata-style solutions generally employ a CDC-based ingestion layer to capture changes from source systems and a delivery layer to apply those changes to the target in a reliable, often near real-time, fashion. The architecture aims for end-to-end data consistency with retry logic and fault tolerance, supporting scalable deployments across multiple tables and datasets.

Use cases typically center on real-time analytics, data replication for disaster recovery, modernization of ETL/ELT processes, and keeping analytics environments synchronized with operational systems.

See also: Change data capture, Data integration, Real-time analytics, Data pipeline, ETL/ELT.