Connector

A Connector is a software component that enables a data system, like RisingWave, to communicate with external systems for data ingestion (sources) or data egress (sinks). Connectors handle the specifics of interacting with different technologies, such as message queues (Kafka, Pulsar), databases (via JDBC or CDC), or file systems (S3). They abstract away the protocol and format details, simplifying pipeline construction.