APACHE-KAFKA-CONNECT

Kafka source/sink connector framework.

Definition

Kafka Connect runs in standalone or distributed mode (worker cluster). 200+ official Confluent and community connectors: JDBC, Debezium (CDC), S3, Snowflake, Elasticsearch, MongoDB. Schemas via Schema Registry. Single Message Transforms (SMT) for in-flight transformations.

Origin

Launched with Kafka 0.9 in November 2015 by Confluent.

Example in context

A bank streams its 5M PostgreSQL trade events to Kafka with a Debezium connector then to Snowflake with a sink connector.

Related terms

• Debezium — CDC connector.