QUESTION:

According to Oracle, CDC is deprecated and desupported in Oracle 12c. Oracle have removed CDC from Oracle 12c and incorporated it into GoldenGate. Yet the StreamSets documentation says Oracle 12c is supported with the Oracle CDC client.

ANSWER:

This can be a little bit confusing. There is, indeed, an Oracle CDC feature which was deprecated as of Oracle 11, and removed in Oracle 12.

However, the Oracle CDC origin in StreamSets does not use this feature. When we refer to CDC in the origin name, we're referring to the fact that we are performing change-data-capture against the Oracle database. However, the actual underlying Oracle capability we use is LogMiner, which is definitely not deprecated in Oracle 11, and certainly does exist in Oracle 12. 

We have customers successfully using the Oracle CDC origin in StreamSets Data Collector in production on Oracle 12c, and we apologize for any confusion the naming of the origin may have caused you.