Formats

Flink provides a set of table formats that can be used with table connectors. A table format is a storage format defines how to map binary data onto table columns.

Flink supports the following formats:

Formats	Supported Connectors
CSV	Apache Kafka, Upsert Kafka, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Filesystem
JSON	Apache Kafka, Upsert Kafka, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Filesystem, Elasticsearch
Apache Avro	Apache Kafka, Upsert Kafka, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Filesystem
Confluent Avro	Apache Kafka, Upsert Kafka
Debezium CDC	Apache Kafka, Filesystem
Canal CDC	Apache Kafka, Filesystem
Maxwell CDC	Apache Kafka, Filesystem
Apache Parquet	Filesystem
Apache ORC	Filesystem
Raw	Apache Kafka, Upsert Kafka, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Filesystem