Streaming modes of Flink-Kafka connectors
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www.ververica.com
Author :
Alexey Novakov
This blog post will guide you through the Kafka connectors that are available in the Flink Table API. By the end of this blog post, you will have a better understanding of which connector is more suitable for a specific application. Flink DataStream API provides Kafka connector, which works in append mode and can be used by your Flink program written in the Scala/Java API. Besides that, Flink has the Table API which offers two Kafka connectors: