Ingestion from Kafka Overview
Ingesting data from Apache Kafka to QuestDB is a common use case.
Possible strategies include:
- QuestDB Kafka connector: Recommended strategy for connecting to Kafka.
- JDBC connector: Generic connector using Kafka Connect.
- Write a dedicated program to read data from Kafka and write to QuestDB.
- Use a stream processing engine.
Each strategy has different trade-offs.
See the Ingestion Primer for an overview, or click into the QuestDB or JDBC connectors.