For Debezium (a change data capture solution) we parse SQL for some of the connectors in order to keep track of the schema of captured tables as DDL statements

For Debezium (a change data capture solution) we parse SQL for some of the connectors in order to keep track of the schema of captured tables as DDL statements are executed. Events we receive e.g. from MySQL aren't fully self-descriptive, you need to know the schema they adhere to in order to interpret them. As table schemas can change over time and as -- due to the async nature of streaming the transaction log -- we may receive change events produced from before a table's schema was changed, we cannot simply query the current table schema. Parsing incoming DDL events is the only way for keeping the connector's view on the schema in sync.