Hi, That is FlumeOG (0.9.X). FlumeNG (1.X) as far as I am aware has no limitation like that.
Brock On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:22 PM, S Ahmed <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > > -- Apache MRUnit - Unit testing MapReduce - http://incubator.apache.org/mrunit/
