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title: Write from Kafka
description: This document describes how to insert data into TDengine using Kafka.
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## About Kafka 

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform, used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. For the key concepts of kafka, please refer to [kafka documentation](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#gettingStarted).

### kafka topic

Messages in Kafka are organized by topics. A topic may have one or more partitions. We can manage kafka topics through `kafka-topics`.

create a topic named `kafka-events`:
 
```
bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --topic kafka-events --bootstrap-server localhost:9092
```

Alter `kafka-events` topic to set partitions to 3:

```
bin/kafka-topics.sh --alter --topic kafka-events --partitions 3 --bootstrap-server=localhost:9092
```

Show all topics and partitions in Kafka:

```
bin/kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server=localhost:9092 --describe
```

## Insert into TDengine

We can write data into TDengine via SQL or Schemaless. For more information, please refer to [Insert Using SQL](/develop/insert-data/sql-writing/) or [High Performance Writing](/develop/insert-data/high-volume/) or [Schemaless Writing](/reference/schemaless/).

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