Complete Full Migration In 30 Days

Why SymmetricDS

SymmetricDS is open-source database replication and change data capture software with over 15 years of active development and deployment at enterprise scale. Unlike Syniti Replicate, it’s not owned by a systems integrator with other priorities, it’s built and maintained by Jumpmind, a team entirely focused on data replication.

It handles the same workloads Syniti Replicate handles: heterogeneous database replication, CDC, data transformation, and synchronization across distributed environments. And it does it without the vendor risk you just experienced.

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What the Migration Actually Looks Like

Migrating from Syniti Replicate to SymmetricDS is not a rip-and-replace. The core concepts, like replication groups, CDC configuration, transformation rules, and conflict handling, map directly. And now, with our Syniti Replicate configuration converter, most of the translation work is automated.

Typical migration path:

1. Export your Syniti Replicate metadata. Syniti Replicate stores your entire replication setup in an XML metadata file: sources, targets, table mappings, transformations, scheduling. Export it from the management console. This is your starting point.
2. Convert your configuration. Upload your metadata XML to the SymmetricDS converter. The tool reads your Syniti Replicate definitions and generates a SymmetricDS-ready configuration file. Table mappings, CDC parameters, and replication logic carry forward automatically. No manual re-entry. No scripting.
3. Stand up SymmetricDS in parallel. Install SymmetricDS alongside your existing Syniti Replicate setup and import the converted configuration. Run both systems simultaneously so there’s zero downtime while you validate.
4. Review and validate the imported configuration. Confirm that source and target connections are correctly mapped, field types align with your target schema, and CDC behavior matches your original Syniti Replicate setup. SymmetricDS gives you full visibility into every imported definition so you can catch discrepancies before they reach production.
5. Validate with compare and repair. Use SymmetricDS’s built-in compare and repair feature to confirm data parity between source and target across both systems. This is a step Syniti Replicate doesn’t easily support.
6. Cut over. Once validation passes, redirect your applications to the SymmetricDS-managed pipeline and decommission Syniti Replicate.

The converter compresses what used to be the most tedious part of migration, manually rebuilding every replication job, into a single step. Most enterprise teams complete full production cutover in 30 to 60 days.

What You’re Leaving Behind (and Gaining)

Trusted at Enterprise Scale

SymmetricDS is deployed across thousands of nodes in retail, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and logistics. It was designed specifically for environments where data replication is mission-critical and failure isn’t an option, like distributed retail systems, remote edge deployments, real-time data warehousing, and zero-downtime database migrations.

It’s not a pivot from a systems integrator. Replication is the whole product.