A set of software design patterns used to determine and track the data that has changed so that action can be taken using the changed data.
Change Data Capture (CDC) lets enterprise databases stream changes in real time. Instead of running large nightly batch jobs to update a Vector Database, CDC detects when a record changes and pushes that change to the embedding pipeline, so the data the AI retrieves stays in step with live operations.
See also Vector Database, Context Window, Data Mobilization and Data Lakehouse.