Glossary term
What is CDC (Change Data Capture)?
CDC stands for Change Data Capture.
Streams every database change as an event. Example: Debezium sends DB changes to Kafka → search index.
Learn it properly · System DesignLesson 19: How Search Works: The Inverted IndexLIKE '%running shoes%' scans every row and still misses “running shoe”. How the inverted index flips documents into term → document lists, how analysis makes search forgiving, how BM25 ranks results, and how search scales and stays in sync.