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Hadoop Blueprints

You're reading from   Hadoop Blueprints Use Hadoop to solve business problems by learning from a rich set of real-life case studies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783980307
Length 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sudheesh Narayan Sudheesh Narayan
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Tanmay Deshpande Tanmay Deshpande
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Anurag Shrivastava Anurag Shrivastava
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Preface 1. Hadoop and Big Data 2. A 360-Degree View of the Customer FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Fraud Detection System 4. Marketing Campaign Planning 5. Churn Detection 6. Analyze Sensor Data Using Hadoop 7. Building a Data Lake 8. Future Directions

Apache Flume


Data Lakes can be filled with data coming from multiple sources at different speeds. The tools in the ingestion tier, such as Apache Flume, can handle the massive volume of incoming data and store it on HDFS.

Apache Flume is a distributed and scalable tool that can reliably collect the data from different sources and move it to a centralized data store on HDFS. Massive volumes of data can be generated in the form of weblogs or sensor data and stored on HDFS for analysis and distribution. Though the typical use cases of Apache Flume involve collection and storage of log data, it can be used to ingest any kind of data in HDFS.

Understanding the Design of Flume

Flume is an agent-based system. It contains three components:

  • Source: The source receives the events from an external system or from the sink of another Flume agent.

  • Channel: This offers the means to let events flow from a source to a sink. A channel is a transient store that holds the event coming from a source until it is...

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