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MapR DB Sink Connector¶

The MapR DB connector is used to write data to a MapR DB cluster.

Important

This connector requires that the MapR Client is installed and working properly on the host running the connect worker process. The Kafka Connect worker process must be started with -Dmapr.home.dir=/opt/mapr -Djava.library.path=/opt/mapr/lib/. You can do this by exporting the KAFKA_OPTS environment variable. For example export KAFKA_OPTS="-Dmapr.home.dir=/opt/mapr -Djava.library.path=/opt/mapr/lib/" before starting Kafka Connect.

Tip

The table on the MapR DB cluster is selected based on the topic name. If you need to change this take a look at the RegexRouter transformation which can be used to change the topic name before it’s sent to MapR DB.

Examples¶

Property based example¶

This configuration is used typically along with standalone workers.

name=MapRDBSinkConnector1
connector.class=io.confluent.connect.mapr.db.MapRDBSinkConnector
tasks.max=1
topics=< Required Configuration >

Rest based example¶

This configuration is used typically along with distributed workers. Write the following json to connector.json, configure all of the required values, and use the command below to post the configuration to one the distributed connect worker(s). Check here for more information about the Kafka Connect Rest API

Connect Distributed REST example¶

{
  "config" : {
    "name" : "MapRDBSinkConnector1",
    "connector.class" : "io.confluent.connect.mapr.db.MapRDBSinkConnector",
    "tasks.max" : "1",
    "topics" : "< Required Configuration >"
  }
}

Use curl to post the configuration to one of the Kafka Connect Workers. Change http://localhost:8083/ the the endpoint of one of your Kafka Connect worker(s).

Create a new connector¶

curl -s -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data @connector.json http://localhost:8083/connectors

Update an existing connector¶

curl -s -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data @connector.json http://localhost:8083/connectors/MapRDBSinkConnector1/config