Kafka Connectors¶
You can use connectors to copy data between Apache Kafka® and other systems that you want to pull data from or push data to. You can download connectors from Confluent Hub.
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JDBC Source and Sink
The Kafka Connect JDBC Source connector imports data from any relational database with a JDBC driver into an Kafka topic. The Kafka Connect JDBC Sink connector exports data from Kafka topics to any relational database with a JDBC driver.
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JMS Source
The Kafka Connect JMS Source connector is used to move messages from any JMS-compliant broker into Kafka.
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Elasticsearch Service Sink
The Kafka Connect Elasticsearch Service Sink connector moves data from Kafka to Elasticsearch. It writes data from a topic in Kafka to an index in Elasticsearch.
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Amazon S3 Sink
The Kafka Connect Amazon S3 Sink connector exports data from Kafka topics to S3 objects in either Avro, JSON, or Bytes formats.
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HDFS 2 Sink
The Kafka Connect HDFS 2 Sink connector allows you to export data from Apache Kafka® topics to HDFS 2.x files in a variety of formats. The connector integrates with Hive to make data immediately available for querying with HiveQL.
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Replicator
Replicator allows you to easily and reliably replicate topics from one Kafka cluster to another.