Connect Kafka to Postgres

with open-source ELT

Extract and load (ELT) your Kafka data into Postgres in minutes with our open-source data integration connector.

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Start analyzing your Kafka data in minutes

1

Select your source

Just authenticate your Kafka account and destination, and your new Postgres data integration will adapt to schema / API changes.

2

Select your destination

Connect to Postgres or one of 50+ Airbyte data sources through simple account authentication

3

Sync your Data

This includes selecting the data you want to extract - streams and columns -, the sync frequency, where in Postgres you want that data to be loaded.

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Airbyte’s catalog of 300+ pre-built, no-code connectors is the largest in the industry and is doubling every year, thanks to its open-source community, while closed-source catalogs have plateaued.

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Airbyte ensure your team’s time is no longer time spent on maintenance with our reliability SLAs on our GA connectors.
Airbyte will also give you visibility and control of your data freshness at the stream level for all your connections.

It’s never been easier to integrate your Kafka data into Postgres

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FAQs

What is ETL?

ETL, an acronym for Extract, Transform, Load, is a vital data integration process. It involves extracting data from diverse sources, transforming it into a usable format, and loading it into a database, data warehouse or data lake. This process enables meaningful data analysis, enhancing business intelligence.

What is Kafka?

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform that is used to handle real-time data feeds. It is designed to handle high volumes of data and provide real-time processing and analysis of data streams. Kafka is used by many companies for various purposes such as data integration, real-time analytics, and messaging. It is highly scalable and fault-tolerant, making it a popular choice for large-scale data processing. Kafka provides a publish-subscribe model where producers publish data to topics, and consumers subscribe to those topics to receive the data. It also provides features such as data retention, replication, and partitioning to ensure data reliability and availability.

What is Postgres?

An object-relational database management system, PostgreSQL is able to handle a wide range of workloads, supports multiple standards, and is cross-platform, running on numerous operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD. It is highly extensible, and supports more than 12 procedural languages, Spatial data support, Gin and GIST Indexes, and more. Many webs, mobile, and analytics applications use PostgreSQL as the primary data warehouse or data store.

What data can you extract from Kafka?

Kafka's API gives access to various types of data, including:

1. Event data: Kafka is primarily used for streaming event data, such as user actions, sensor readings, and log data.

2. Metadata: Kafka provides metadata about the topics, partitions, and brokers in a cluster.

3. Consumer offsets: Kafka tracks the offset of each message consumed by a consumer, allowing for reliable message delivery.

4. Producer metrics: Kafka provides metrics on the performance of producers, such as message send rate and error rate.

5. Consumer metrics: Kafka provides metrics on the performance of consumers, such as message consumption rate and lag.

6. Log data: Kafka stores log data for a configurable amount of time, allowing for historical analysis and debugging.

7. Administrative data: Kafka provides APIs for managing topics, partitions, and consumer groups.

Overall, Kafka's API gives access to a wide range of data related to event streaming, metadata, performance metrics, and administrative tasks.

How do I transfer data from Kafka to Postgres?

This can be done by building a data pipeline manually, usually a Python script (you can leverage a tool as Apache Airflow for this). This process can take more than a full week of development. Or it can be done in minutes on Airbyte in three easy steps: 
1. Set up Kafka as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
2. Set up Postgres as a destination connector
3. Define which data you want to transfer and how frequently
You can choose to self-host the pipeline using Airbyte Open Source or have it managed for you with Airbyte Cloud. 

What are top ETL tools to extract data from

The most prominent ETL tools to transfer data from Kafka to Postgres include:
- Airbyte
- Fivetran
- StitchData
- Matillion
- Talend Data Integration
These tools help in extracting data from Kafka and various sources (APIs, databases, and more), transforming it efficiently, and loading it into Postgres and other databases, data warehouses and data lakes, enhancing data management capabilities.

What is ELT?

ELT, standing for Extract, Load, Transform, is a modern take on the traditional ETL data integration process. In ELT, data is first extracted from various sources, loaded directly into a data warehouse, and then transformed. This approach enhances data processing speed, analytical flexibility and autonomy.

Difference between ETL and ELT?

ETL and ELT are critical data integration strategies with key differences. ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) transforms data before loading, ideal for structured data. In contrast, ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) loads data before transformation, perfect for processing large, diverse data sets in modern data warehouses. ELT is becoming the new standard as it offers a lot more flexibility and autonomy to data analysts.

Kafka to Postgres in minutes.

ETL your Kafka data into Postgres, in minutes, for free, with our open-source data integration connectors. In the format you need with post-load transformation.

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Select the Kafka data that you want to replicate.

The Kafka source connector can be used to sync the following tables:

About Kafka

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform that is used to handle real-time data feeds. It is designed to handle high volumes of data and provide real-time processing and analysis of data streams. Kafka is used by many companies for various purposes such as data integration, real-time analytics, and messaging. It is highly scalable and fault-tolerant, making it a popular choice for large-scale data processing. Kafka provides a publish-subscribe model where producers publish data to topics, and consumers subscribe to those topics to receive the data. It also provides features such as data retention, replication, and partitioning to ensure data reliability and availability.

Start analyzing your Kafka data in minutes with the right data transformation

airbyte data transformation screenshot

Full control over the data

You select the data you want to replicate, and this for each destination you want to replicate your

Kafka

data to.

Normalized schemas

You can opt for getting the raw data, or to explode all nested API objects in separate tables.

Custom transformation via dbt

You can add any dbt transformation model you want and even sequence them in the order you need, so you get the data in the exact format you need at your cloud data warehouse, lake or data base.

Airbyte is designed to address 100% of your Postgres needs

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Scheduled updates

Automate replications with recurring incremental updates to

Postgres

.

play
Replicate Salesforce data to Snowflake with incremental

Manual full refresh

Easily re-sync all your data when

Postgres

has been desynchronized from the data source.

Change Data Capture for databases

Ensure your database are up to date with log-based incremental replication.

play
Check how log replication works for PostgreSQL

About Postgres

An object-relational database management system, PostgreSQL is able to handle a wide range of workloads, supports multiple standards, and is cross-platform, running on numerous operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD. It is highly extensible, and supports more than 12 procedural languages, Spatial data support, Gin and GIST Indexes, and more. Many webs, mobile, and analytics applications use PostgreSQL as the primary data warehouse or data store.

Why Choose Airbyte for your Kafka and Postgres data integration

Airbyte is the new open-source ETL platform, and enables you to replicate your

Kafka

data in the destination of your choice, in minutes.

Maintenance-free

Heading

connector

Just authenticate your Kafka account and destination, and your new Kafka data integration will adapt to schema / API changes.

Extensible as open-sourced

With Airbyte, you can easily adapt the open-source Kafka ETL connector to your exact needs. All connectors are open-sourced.

No more security compliance issues​

Use Airbyte’s open-source edition to test your data pipeline without going through 3rd-party services. This will make your security team happy.

Normalized schemas​

Engineers can opt for raw data, analysts for normalized schemas. Airbyte offers several options that you can leverage with dbt.

Orchestration & scheduling​

Airbyte integrates with your existing stack. It can run with Airflow & Kubernetes and more are coming.

Monitoring & alerts on your terms​

Delays happen. We log everything and let you know when issues arise. Use our webhook to get notifications the way you want.

Kafka to PostgreSQL in minutes

ETL your Kafka data into Postgres, in minutes, for free, with our open-source data integration connectors. In the format you need with post-load transformation.

We don't support the
Kafka
connector yet. Scroll down to upvote and prioritize it, or check our Connector Development Kit to build it within 2 hours.
We don't support the
Postgres
connector yet. Scroll down to upvote and prioritize it, or check our Connector Development Kit to build it within 2 hours.
We don't support the
Kafka
and
Postgres
connectors yet. Scroll down to upvote and prioritize them, or check our Connector Development Kit to build it within 2 hours.

Airbyte is designed to address 100% of your Kafka database needs.

Full control over the data

The 

Kafka

 source does not alter the schema present in your database. Depending on the destination connected to this source, however, the schema may be altered.

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Scheduled updates

Automate replications with recurring incremental updates.

Log-based incremental replication

Ensure your database are up to date with log-based incremental replication.

play
Check how log replication works for PostgreSQL

About Kafka

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform that is used to handle real-time data feeds. It is designed to handle high volumes of data and provide real-time processing and analysis of data streams. Kafka is used by many companies for various purposes such as data integration, real-time analytics, and messaging. It is highly scalable and fault-tolerant, making it a popular choice for large-scale data processing. Kafka provides a publish-subscribe model where producers publish data to topics, and consumers subscribe to those topics to receive the data. It also provides features such as data retention, replication, and partitioning to ensure data reliability and availability.

Start analyzing your Kafka data in minutes with the right data transformation

airbyte data transformation screenshot

Full control over the data

You select the data you want to replicate, and this for each destination you want to replicate your Kafka data to.

Normalized schemas

You can opt for getting the raw data, or to explode all nested API objects in separate tables.

Custom transformation via dbt

You can add any dbt transformation model you want and even sequence them in the order you need, so you get the data in the exact format you need at your cloud data warehouse, lake or data base.

Airbyte is designed to address 100% of your Postgres needs

calendar icon

Scheduled updates

Automate replications with recurring incremental updates to Postgres.

play
Replicate Salesforce data to Snowflake with incremental

Manual full refresh

Easily re-sync all your data when Postgres has been desynchronized from the data source.

Change Data Capture for databases

Ensure your database are up to date with log-based incremental replication.

play
Check how log replication works for PostgreSQL

About Postgres

An object-relational database management system, PostgreSQL is able to handle a wide range of workloads, supports multiple standards, and is cross-platform, running on numerous operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD. It is highly extensible, and supports more than 12 procedural languages, Spatial data support, Gin and GIST Indexes, and more. Many webs, mobile, and analytics applications use PostgreSQL as the primary data warehouse or data store.

Why choose Airbyte for your Kafka and Postgres data integration.

Airbyte is the new open-source ETL platform, and enables you to replicate your Kafka data in the destination of your choice, in minutes.

Maintenance-free

Heading

connector

Just authenticate your

Kafka

account and destination, and your new

Kafka

data integration will adapt to schema / API changes.

Extensible as open-sourced

With Airbyte, you can easily adapt the open-source

Kafka

ETL connector to your exact needs. All connectors are open-sourced.

No more security compliance issues​

Use Airbyte’s open-source edition to test your data pipeline without going through 3rd-party services. This will make your security team happy.

Normalized schemas​

Engineers can opt for raw data, analysts for normalized schemas. Airbyte offers several options that you can leverage with dbt.

Orchestration & scheduling​

Airbyte integrates with your existing stack. It can run with Airflow & Kubernetes and more are coming.

Monitoring & alerts on your terms​

Delays happen. We log everything and let you know when issues arise. Use our webhook to get notifications the way you want.