Integrating with Apache Kafka

Welcome to the Vertica Data Streaming Integration Guide.

Audience

This book is intended for anyone who wants to load data from an existing data streaming message bus into a Vertica database.

Prerequisites

This document assumes that you have installed and configured Vertica as described in Installing Vertica and the Configuring the Database section of the Administrator's Guide. In addition, you must have Java 7.0 or later installed on your Vertica node. Refer to the Vertica product documentation to learn more.

In addition, this guide assumes you have installed and configured your data streaming platform. For details on installing and using third party applications, please to refer to the documentation for that application.