Apache Cassandra, an open-source NoSQL distributed database, has introduced a new change data capture (CDC) solution to enhance real-time data connectivity for businesses. DataStax CDC for Cassandra, powered by Apache Pulsar, allows users to capture database changes as a stream of events and expose them to any downstream systems and clients. This feature deduplicates changes observed at the replica level and exposes a "clean" set of changed rows on a Pulsar topic, which can then be piped to various parts of an enterprise ecosystem. The CDC for Cassandra is compatible with DataStax Enterprise version 6.8.16 and open source Cassandra versions 4.0.x and 3.11.x.