Flume is an open source distributed service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. It has a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming data flows, and can be used to transport massive quantities of event data including log data and social media data.
Flume is an open source distributed service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. It is designed to be flexible, scalable, and reliable for handling massive quantities of data.
Some key features of Flume include:
Flume is well suited for gathering large amounts of web/application logs or social media data like tweets in real time. The lightweight agent architecture allows Flume to be installed on many web servers with minimal overhead. Data flows through memory or disk-based channels and sinks to final storage in Hadoop or other systems. Additional agents can be added anywhere to fan out and replicate flows.
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