What is canal built with?

Q: Which repos have a stack like canal's?

The ones that share most of its stack: conductor-oss/conductor, kestra-io/kestra, and alibaba/nacos.

canal is a Java repo built with org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web, Spring Boot, Spring, org.jboss.netty:netty, Vue, and 1 more. It stores its data in com.alibaba:druid, Elasticsearch, MySQL, org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeper, RabbitMQ, and 6 more, reaches it with mybatis, mybatis-spring, and org.springframework:spring-orm, is tested with org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test, powermock-module-junit4, junit:junit, org.powermock:powermock-api-mockito, org.mockito:mockito-all, and 2 more, deploys with jcl-over-slf4j, log4j-core, logback-core, org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api, Prometheus, and 3 more, and uses clickhouse-jdbc, H2 Database, kafka-clients, mssql-jdbc, mysql:mysql-connector-java, and 7 more. It has 100,266 written lines, with 144 test files.

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Frontend

The base 1

Vue4 files

Styles 1

Normalize.css1 file

Interface 2

Element3 files
nprogress1 file

Backend

The base 1

org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web

Data 22

Elasticsearch14 files
MySQL10 files · admin/admin-web/pom.xml, line 1
RabbitMQ5 files
Apache3 files
Postgres3 files · client-adapter/launcher/pom.xml, line 1
H2 Database
mysql:mysql-connector-java
org.elasticsearch.client:elasticsearch-rest-client
org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-jdbc
PostgreSQL
com.alibaba:druid27 files
org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeper6 files

10 more

org.apache.curator:curator-recipes3 files
org.apache.kudu:kudu-client3 files
org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-client3 files
org.apache.hbase:hbase-client2 files
com.github.ben-manes.caffeine:caffeine1 file
clickhouse-jdbc
kafka-clients
mssql-jdbc
phoenix-core
tablestore

Data access 3

org.springframework:spring-orm
mybatis
mybatis-spring

Services 1

Kafka7 files · client/src/main/java/com/alibaba/otter/canal/client/kafka/KafkaCanalConnector.java, line 7

Support

The base 4

Spring62 files
vue-router1 file
Spring Boot
org.jboss.netty:netty14 files

Testing 7

@vue/test-utils3 files
org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test
junit:junit109 files
mockjs2 files
org.powermock:powermock-api-mockito2 files
org.mockito:mockito-all1 file
powermock-module-junit4

Deploy 8

org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api
Prometheus
org.slf4j:slf4j-api143 files
ch.qos.logback:logback-classic2 files
jcl-over-slf4j
log4j-core
logback-core
simpleclient_hotspot

Tools 3

Babel1 file
org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-configuration-processor
jsr305

Other 23

Google12 files
vuex4 files
js-cookie2 files
Axios1 file
chalk1 file
com.google.guava:guava
com.alibaba.fastjson2:fastjson232 files
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient10 files
javax.annotation:javax.annotation-api7 files
com.googlecode.aviator:aviator6 files
io.netty:netty-all4 files
org.apache.commons:commons-compress4 files

11 more

joda-time:joda-time3 files
com.lmax:disruptor1 file
org.apache.commons:commons-lang31 file
org.yaml:snakeyaml1 file
path-to-regexp1 file
commons-beanutils
commons-codec
commons-io
commons-lang
jctools-core
zstd-jni

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Frequently asked questions

What language is canal written in?

canal is written in Java, with 100,266 written lines.

What framework does canal use?

canal is built with org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web, Spring Boot, Spring, org.jboss.netty:netty, Vue, and vue-router.

What database does canal use?

canal stores its data in com.alibaba:druid, Elasticsearch, MySQL, org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeper, RabbitMQ, Apache, org.apache.curator:curator-recipes, org.apache.kudu:kudu-client, org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-client, Postgres, and org.apache.hbase:hbase-client and reaches it with mybatis, mybatis-spring, and org.springframework:spring-orm.

What services does canal use?

canal uses clickhouse-jdbc, H2 Database, kafka-clients, mssql-jdbc, mysql:mysql-connector-java, org.elasticsearch.client:elasticsearch-rest-client, org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-jdbc, phoenix-core, PostgreSQL, tablestore, com.github.ben-manes.caffeine:caffeine, and Kafka.

Does canal have tests?

Yes. canal has 144 test files and is tested with org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test, powermock-module-junit4, junit:junit, org.powermock:powermock-api-mockito, org.mockito:mockito-all, @vue/test-utils, and mockjs.

Which repos have a stack like canal's?

The ones that share most of its stack:conductor-oss/conductor kestra-io/kestra alibaba/nacos