MaterializedMySQL is dead. Master the 2026 industry standard CDC pipeline using Debezium and Redpanda on Bare Metal. MySQL is an outstanding transactional database, but it severely struggles with heavy analytical queries. Moving these workloads to ClickHouse is the definitive solution. However, if you read older migration guides from popular database vendors, they will almost universally instruct you to use the MaterializedMySQL engine. Do not execute those commands. The ClickHouse team officially deprecated and removed the MaterializedMySQL engine in version 24.12. It was highly experimental and fundamentally flawed at scale. The true enterprise standard for achieving zero-downtime replication is Change Data Capture, commonly referred to as CDC.…