Lakeflow Connect

This section describes the tools available to connect to and ingest data from different data sources.

Tool	What it is used for
Files	You can ingest files that resides on your local network, files that have been uploaded to a volume, or files that are downloaded from an internet location.
Managed connectors	You can ingest data from SaaS applications and databases using fully-managed connectors.
Standard connectors	Learn about other tools that databricks provides for ingesting data, including connectors for cloud object storage and streaming sources like Kafka.