Josh, Very nice. Would you be willing to give a talk at the next cloud meeting?
Sterling Sent from my iPad On May 2, 2012, at 9:46 PM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > A while back, I wrote some code as a proof of concept to use node.js (an > event-driven, server-side Javascript environment) as a way to ingest data > into Accumulo. I think it's a cool example of alternative ways to get data > into Accumulo, so I cleaned up what I wrote and posted it to Github. > > https://github.com/joshelser/node-accumulo > > Using RabbitMQ (open source message broker which implements the AMQP > standard) and a node.js plugin for AMQP, I was able to send data from a > node.js process, through RabbitMQ, into a background Java process which > inserts the data into Accumulo. > > The example is a contrived website hit-tracking application (think Google > Analytics). When a user visits a website, an HTTP request -- with the client > IP, server IP, and current timestamp in the query string -- is made to an > HTTP server running inside of the node.js process. This information then > makes its way into Accumulo as a key-value pair. > > I hope to expand on this some more, but I wanted to share the existing > concept with everyone. Instructions and additional information can be found > on the project page. Feedback is welcome! > > - Josh
