Re: Kafka as a data ingest

Will, The HDFS connector we ship today is for Kafka -> HDFS, so it isn't reading/processing data in HDFS. I was discussing both directions because the question was unclear. However, there's no reason you couldn't create a connector that processes files in splits to parallelize an HDFS -> Kafka

Re: Kafka as a data ingest

In terms of big files which is quite often in HDFS, does connect task parallel process the same file like what MR deal with split files? I do not think so. In this case, Kafka connect implement has no advantages to read single big file unless you also use mapreduce. Sent from my iPhone On Jan

Re: Kafka as a data ingest

> However, I'm trying to figure out if I can use Kafka to read Hadoop file. The question is a bit unclear as to whether you mean "use Kafka to send data to a Hadoop file" or "use Kafka to read a Hadoop file into a Kafka topic". But in both cases, Kafka Connect provides a good option. The more

Re: Kafka as a data ingest

If you want to know if "kafka" can read hadoop files, then no. But you can write your own producer that reads from hdfs any which way and pushes to kafka. We use kafka as the ingestion pipeline's main queue. Read from various sources and push everything to kafka. On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 6:26 AM,

Re: Kafka as a data ingest

Can you explain in more detail? Do you want to have files created in hdfs somehow broken into records and put into Kafka? > On Jan 9, 2017, at 19:57, Cas Apanowicz wrote: > > Hi, > > I have general understanding of main Kafka functionality as a streaming tool. >

Kafka as a data ingest

Hi, I have general understanding of main Kafka functionality as a streaming tool. However, I'm trying to figure out if I can use Kafka to read Hadoop file. Can you please advise? Thanks Cas