Kafka Connect Sink Connectors
Learn about the Kafka Connect Sink connectors and how to build a data pipeline from Kafka to PostgreSQL.
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Kafka Connect has Sink connectors for various systems, including databases. Here, we will learn how to build a data pipeline from Kafka to PostgreSQL using the popular JDBC Sink connector.
Here is a high-level representation of the solution we will implement. Let’s dive into its individual building blocks and understand how they work.
Kafka JDBC Sink connector
The Kafka Connect JDBC Sink connector allows us to export data from Apache Kafka topics to any relational database with a JDBC driver. The connector provides many capabilities, most of which are configured/activated using the connector properties. Here are some of the important ones:
It can create the destination table if it is missing (the
auto.createconfiguration should be set totrue).If ...