@drgenious You didn't include a link to what you found that said "something about CDH", but I suspect based on your description that what you found was not about CDH (which stands for Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop), but CDC, or change data capture.
I will leave the question about how to copy the data from an RDBMS such as Mysql and somehow publish that to a Kafka topic to other members of the community to answer.
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