Flume hadoop

1. What is the use of flume in Hadoop?
2. What is difference between flume and sqoop?
3. What is Kafka and Flume?
4. What is a flume job?

What is the use of flume in Hadoop?

Flume. Apache Flume. Apache Flume is an open-source, powerful, reliable and flexible system used to collect, aggregate and move large amounts of unstructured data from multiple data sources into HDFS/Hbase (for example) in a distributed fashion via it's strong coupling with the Hadoop cluster.

What is difference between flume and sqoop?

The major difference between Sqoop and Flume is that Sqoop is used for loading data from relational databases into HDFS while Flume is used to capture a stream of moving data.

What is Kafka and Flume?

Kafka runs as a cluster which handles the incoming high volume data streams in the real time. Flume is a tool to collect log data from distributed web servers. Kafka will treat each topic partition as an ordered set of messages.

What is a flume job?

Apache Flume is a tool/service/data ingestion mechanism for collecting aggregating and transporting large amounts of streaming data such as log files, events (etc...) from various sources to a centralized data store. ... It is principally designed to copy streaming data (log data) from various web servers to HDFS.