# Target

Physical machine on which Talend Change Data Capture target engine is installed (for more information, see [Installing the source and target engines on AS/400 IBMi, iSeries, Power i](https://help.qlik.com/talend/r/en-US/7.3/change-data-capture-installation-guide/installing-on-as-400-iseries-power-i) and [Installing the target engines](https://help.qlik.com/talend/r/en-US/7.3/change-data-capture-installation-guide/installing-the-target-engines)).

The target database(s) are not necessarily installed on the same machine as the target engine one.

The Talend Change Data Capture engine machine can act as a bridge between different databases implemented on other machines, with different operating systems, or in the cloud.

Information noteWarning: When using an AS/400 IBMi target database on a given machine, the target machine must be the same one.

You can create several "logical" targets corresponding to a single physical machine in order to define a software architecture that is independent of the physical architecture. For example, in a multi-site context, you can define one target for each target site and have several sites physically on the same machine.

Example of distributed IBM DB2 Database with several logical targets:

![](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/change-data-capture-user-guide/Resources/images/tcdc-distributed-bd.png)

The following targets are supported by Talend Change Data Capture:

* Altibase HDB,
* Azure SQL,
* Btrieve,
* DB2 LUW,
* Event Hubs,
* Greenplum,
* iSeries Access,
* Kafka,
* Kinesis,
* MariaDB,
* MS-Access,
* MySQL,
* Netezza,
* NuoDB,
* ODBC,
* OpenEdge,
* Oracle Database,
* PostgreSQL,
* Salesforce,
* SAP HANA,
* Service Bus,
* SQLite,
* SQL Server,
* Snowflake,
* Sybase,
* Teradata,
* Text File,
* Vectorwise,
* XML-based database.