2026 Complete CCDAK Apache Kafka Practice Test

The key idea is the direction of data flow in Kafka Connect. In this framework, there are source connectors and sink connectors. A sink connector is used when you want to move data out of Kafka into an external system, such as a database. That exactly describes publishing data from Kafka to an external data source. Kafka Connect provides the tooling to run these sink connectors to export your topic data into the target database. In contrast, a source connector pulls data from an external system into Kafka, which isn’t what you’re doing here. MirrorMaker (or Mirror Maker) is about replicating data between Kafka clusters, not exporting to a database. So the term that fits exporting data out of Kafka is Sink Connect.