title: Kafka Connect vs Streams for Sinks
body: <p>I am trying to understand what Connect buys you that Streams does not.  We have a part of our application where we want to consume a topic and write to mariadb.</p>
  
  <p>I could accomplish this with a simple processor.  Read the record, store in state store and then bulk insert into mariadb.</p>
  
  <p>Why is this a bad idea?  What does JDBC Sink Connector buy you?</p>