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Posts Tagged ‘Flume’

How to Load Log Data into HDFS using Flume

Data acquisition is a very important part of building a big data ecosystem. Data acquisition allows you to extract various types of data such as a file, DB, streaming, web page etc. If you are just setting up your local environment, not in the real business scenarios, you can resolve data acquisition by making use […]

A little stuffed animal called Hadoop

Doug Cutting – Hadoop creator – is reported to have explained how the name for his Big Data technology came about: “The name my kid gave a stuffed yellow elephant. Short, relatively easy to spell and pronounce, meaningless, and not used elsewhere: those are my naming criteria.” The term, of course, evolved over time and […]