Chapter 6. Data Ingestion in Hadoop – Sqoop and Flume

Data ingestion is critical and should be emphasized for any big data project, as the volume of data is usually in terabytes or petabytes, maybe exabytes. Handling huge amounts of data is always a challenge and critical. As big data systems are popular to process unstructured or semi-structured data, this brings in complex and many data sources that have huge amount of data. With each data source, the complexity of system increases. Many domains or data types such as social media, marketing, genes in healthcare, video and audio systems, telecom CDR, and so on have diverse sources of data. Many of these produce or send data consistently on a large scale. The key issue is to manage the data consistency and how to leverage the resource available. Data ingestion, in particular, is complex in Hadoop or generally big data as data sources and processing are now in batch, stream, real-time. This also increases the complexity...