# JDBC Source and Sink Connector for Confluent Platform The JDBC connectors allow data transfer between relational databases and Apache Kafka®. * The JDBC source connector allows you to import data from any relational database with a JDBC driver into Kafka topics. For more information, see the [JDBC Source Connector for Confluent Platform](source-connector/overview.md#jdbc-source-configs-overview) documentation. * The JDBC sink connector works with many databases without requiring custom. It automatically loads data by periodically running a SQL query and creating an output record for each row in the result set. For more information, see the [JDBC Sink Connector for Confluent Platform](sink-connector/overview.md#connect-jdbc-sink) documentation.