Exporting Data | Teradata Access Module for Kafka - About Exporting Data - Access Module

The following figure provides an overview of how data is exported from the database to the Kafka Server through Teradata Parallel Transporter exporting operators and the Teradata Access Module for Kafka.

Although the figure shows the Data Consumer, Kafka Server, Teradata Parallel Transporter exporting operators, and Teradata Access Module for Kafka on separate systems, these entities can be on the same system.

1. The Teradata Parallel Transporter exporting operators retrieve data from the database and transfer the data to the Teradata Parallel Transporter DataConnector operator.
2. The Teradata Parallel Transporter DataConnector operator initiates a sequence of instructions to transfer the data to the Teradata Access Module for Kafka.

   This sequence of instructions includes the access module Initialize, File Open, File Write, File Close and Shutdown.

3. The Teradata Access Module for Kafka uses APIs of librdkafka, a third-party open source shared library, to connect to the Kafka Server.
4. The Teradata Access Module for Kafka composes database records into messages and sends the messages to the Kafka Server by using APIs of librdkafka, a third-party open source shared library.
5. The Kafka Server puts the messages on a specified partition of a certain destination, called a Topic, for consumption.