What is Kafka SmartMap?

Kafka SmartMap is Striim's high-performance Kafka target capability for streaming data from Striim-supported sources into Apache Kafka and Kafka-compatible platforms, including Confluent Platform, Confluent Cloud, and Amazon MSK.

Kafka SmartMap writes initial load, change data, and event streams from sources such as relational databases, NoSQL databases, data warehouses, files, SaaS applications, message buses, and application adapters into Kafka topics. It is designed to make Kafka pipelines easier to configure and operate by supporting source-to-topic mapping, topic creation, schema creation and evolution, secure connection profiles, and configurable delivery semantics.

Kafka SmartMap does not perform change capture by itself. Instead, it writes data captured or produced by upstream Striim sources, including CDC sources, into Kafka with the topic structure, message format, keys, partitioning strategy, and reliability guarantees required by downstream consumers.

Kafka SmartMap: source streams to Kafka topics