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Synchronous vs Asynchronous

Synchronous components
The output of an synchronous component uses the same buffer as the input. Reusing of the input buffer is possible because the output of an synchronous component always contain exactly the same number of records as the input. Number of records IN == Number of records OUT.

• Asynchronous components
  The output of an asynchronous component uses a new buffer. It’s not possible to reuse the input buffer because an asynchronous component can have more or less output records then input records.

The only thing you need to remember is that synchronous components reuse buffers and therefore are generally faster than asynchronous components, that need a new buffer.

All source adapters are asynchronous, they create two buffers; one for the success output and one for the error output. All destination adapters on the other hand, are synchronous.

Non-blocking, Semi-blocking and Fully-blocking