Account Types

A Kafka connector account is used to connect to a Kafka cluster, establishing a network connection to one or more Kafka brokers that use the security protocol specified. Kafka connector provides two types of accounts.

Producer Account

The account is used to publish messages to a specific Kafka topic. The producer-related actions use the Producer Account configurations, such as serialization, batch processing, compression to process the messages before sending to the Kafka server.

Consumer Account

The account is used to consume messages from one or more specified Kafka topics. The consumer-related action uses the Consumer Account configurations, such as deserialization to process the messages after receiving them from the Kafka server, run group co-ordination, and offset management.