= Sink Connectors

{prodname} provides sink connectors that can consume events from sources such as Apache Kafka topics.
A sink connector standardizes the format of the data, and then persists the event data to a configured sink repository.
Other systems, applications, or users can then access the events from the data sink.

Because the sink connector applies a consistent structure to the event data that it consumes, downstream applications that read from the data sink can more easily interpret and process that data.

Currently, {prodname} provides the following sink connectors:

* xref:connectors/jdbc.adoc[JDBC]
