Brock, Doesn't this mean it is limited to 32k?
https://github.com/apache/flume/blob/branch-0.9.5/flume-core/src/main/java/com/cloudera/flume/core/EventImpl.java#L39 On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Brock Noland <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:51 AM, S Ahmed <[email protected]> wrote: > > Could flume be used to store log data where payload sizes are 2-100K in > > size? (with the average being 25KB). > > Yes Flume could handle that size. > > > > > This data is collected from a website, so each request there will be a > > payload that needs to be stored (it is in XML format) and then every x > > seconds it should be persisted from memory to mysql/hdfs/disk. > > > > Is this an appropriate use case for flume? > > Sounds like it to me. > > > > > Can flume persist to things other than hdfs like mysql? > > You'd have to write a MySQLSink or JDBCSink but yes that should work. > > Brock > > -- > Apache MRUnit - Unit testing MapReduce - > http://incubator.apache.org/mrunit/ >
