https://community.databricks.com/t5/mvp-articles/change-data-feed-ingestion-test/m-p/154384#M155 <P>AUTO CDC made me curious about one practical question: if Auto CDC is now one of the easiest ways to process CDF, is it also the cheapest? To answer that, I compared 3 approaches:</P> <P>- AUTO CDC pipeline (in standard and performance mode)<BR />- Spark Structured Streaming (in standard and performance mode)<BR />- SQL warehouse with table_changes()</P> <P>test results:<BR /><A href="https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/auto-cdc-change-data-feed-cost-benchmark-databricks" target="_blank">https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/auto-cdc-change-data-feed-cost-benchmark-databricks</A><BR /><A href="https://medium.com/@databrickster/change-data-feed-in-databricks-delta-how-to-process-it-the-most-efficient-way-8f55c3f85023" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@databrickster/change-data-feed-in-databricks-delta-how-to-process-it-the-most-efficient-way-8f55c3f85023</A></P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="cdftest1.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.databricks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/25962iA886FD46D3A7B32E/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="cdftest1.png" alt="cdftest1.png" /></span></P> Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:44:20 GMT Hubert-Dudek 2026-04-13T19:44:20Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/mvp-articles/change-data-feed-ingestion-test/m-p/154384#M155 <P>AUTO CDC made me curious about one practical question: if Auto CDC is now one of the easiest ways to process CDF, is it also the cheapest? To answer that, I compared 3 approaches:</P> <P>- AUTO CDC pipeline (in standard and performance mode)<BR />- Spark Structured Streaming (in standard and performance mode)<BR />- SQL warehouse with table_changes()</P> <P>test results:<BR /><A href="https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/auto-cdc-change-data-feed-cost-benchmark-databricks" target="_blank">https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/auto-cdc-change-data-feed-cost-benchmark-databricks</A><BR /><A href="https://medium.com/@databrickster/change-data-feed-in-databricks-delta-how-to-process-it-the-most-efficient-way-8f55c3f85023" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@databrickster/change-data-feed-in-databricks-delta-how-to-process-it-the-most-efficient-way-8f55c3f85023</A></P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="cdftest1.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.databricks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/25962iA886FD46D3A7B32E/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="cdftest1.png" alt="cdftest1.png" /></span></P> Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:44:20 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/mvp-articles/change-data-feed-ingestion-test/m-p/154384#M155 Hubert-Dudek 2026-04-13T19:44:20Z