Alibaba Cloud Data Transmission Service (DTS) is a data exchange service that streamlines data migration, data synchronization, and data subscription. It’s applicable for databases running on Alibaba Cloud and it’s compatible with widely used open-sources databases, including RDS and NoSQL.
DTS Data Migration
- Data migration helps you quickly and easily migrate data between different databases
- DTS is applicable to scenarios such as on-premises data to cloud migration, Alibaba Cloud crosses instance migration, and database split and expansion. Both homogeneous migration, such as MySQL to MySQL, and heterogeneous migration, and Oracle to Alibaba Cloud RDS MySQL, are also attainable
- DTS also provides ETL functions, including multi-level object mapping and data filtering
DTS Data Synchronization
- Data synchronization helps you replicate data between two databases in real-time. It is applicable to scenarios sus as off-site disaster recovery, cross-region data synchronization, and data synchronization between OLTP and OLAP
- Real-time data synchronization between two RDS instances
- Data synchronization between two RDS instances under different Alibaba Cloud accounts
DTS Data Subscription
- Data Subscription helps obtain real-time incremental data of specific RDS instances. It is applicable to scenarios such as,
Cache update, Message notification and Real-time data synchronization between heterogeneous data sources, and real-time data synchronization with complex ETL.
* Screenshots captured from Alibaba Cloud Console on Oct 22, 2019.
