Kafka Connect
Kafka Connect is a part of Apache Kafka. It is a framework to ingest data from one to another system using connectors. There are two types of connectors: source connectors and sink connectors. The sink connectors import data from source systems and write to Kafka topics. The sink connectors read data from the Kafka topic and export it to target systems. Kafka Connect provides various source and sink connectors out of the box.
Kafka Connect – a brief history
Kafka Connect was mainly introduced in November 2015 in Kafka 0.9.x. In addition to the various features of Kafka 0.9.x, Connect APIs was a brand new feature. Then, in May 2016, the new version Kafka 0.10.0 was released. In that version, Kafka Streams API was a new and exciting feature. But, in March 2017, it was Kafka Version 0.10.2 where Kafka Connect got its real momentum. As a part of Kafka 0.10.2, improved simplified Connect APIs and single message transform APIs were released.
Why Kafka Connect?
Kafka Connect helps to...