Sinks

Overview

Sinks are the inverse of sources and represent a connection to an external stream where Materialize outputs data. You can sink data from a materialized view, a source, or a table.

Sink methods

To create a sink, you can:

{{< yaml-table data="sink_external_systems" >}}

Clusters and sinks

Avoid putting sinks on the same cluster that hosts sources.

See also Operational guidelines.

Hydration considerations

During creation, Kafka sinks need to load an entire snapshot of the data in memory.

Related pages

• CREATE SINK