The current connector for relational databases is based on Slick which is mostly attractive for Scala users and lacks proper integration for Java.
Change data management is an interesting area where we have the #889 for Postgres, but a more generic approach would be to integrate with Debezium #2110.
Short description
Revisit in which way Alpakka can provide database connectivity for relational databases.
Details
The current connector for relational databases is based on Slick which is mostly attractive for Scala users and lacks proper integration for Java.
Change data management is an interesting area where we have the #889 for Postgres, but a more generic approach would be to integrate with Debezium #2110.
The R2DBC project does now offer Reactive Streams compatible integrations for databases with non-blocking APIs.