Other options
As always, it doesn't mean that Apache Flume is the only option that can be used to solve the use case problem in hand. We chose Flume for its merit and advantages especially considering our use case of SCV. There are other options which can be considered and these are discussed in brief in his section.
Apache Flink
Apache Flume is used mainly for data acquisition capability. We will be using Flume to transfer data from source systems sending stream data to the messaging layer (for further processing) and all the way into HDFS.
For transferring data all the way to HDFS, Apache Flume is best fit for stream data. However for getting stream data and then processing is one of the main use case for Apache Flink and it does have additional features suited for this.
This doesn't mean that Apache Flink can be used for transferring data to HDFS, it does have the mechanism but there willn't be so many built-in capabilities. It does have many features as against Flume but they are more on...