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Data Lake for Enterprises

You're reading from  Data Lake for Enterprises

Product type Book
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281349
Pages 596 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (3):
Vivek Mishra Vivek Mishra
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Tomcy John Tomcy John
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Pankaj Misra Pankaj Misra
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Part 1 - Overview
Part 2 - Technical Building blocks of Data Lake
Part 3 - Bringing It All Together
Introduction to Data Comprehensive Concepts of a Data Lake Lambda Architecture as a Pattern for Data Lake Applied Lambda for Data Lake Data Acquisition of Batch Data using Apache Sqoop Data Acquisition of Stream Data using Apache Flume Messaging Layer using Apache Kafka Data Processing using Apache Flink Data Store Using Apache Hadoop Indexed Data Store using Elasticsearch Data Lake Components Working Together Data Lake Use Case Suggestions

Flume agent


Flume agent is the smallest possible deployment comprising of Source, Channel and Sink as its main components. The following figure shows a typical Flume agent deployment:

Figure 14: Flume Agent components

Flume agent is a Java daemon which received event from a source and then passes onto a channel, where it is usually written to the disk (according to reliability level set) and then moves the event to the sink. When the sink receives the event it sends acknowledgement back to channel and channel erases the event from its store. The agent has a very small memory footprint (-Xmx20m) and can be controlled declaratively using configurations.

Flume agent configurations

Some of these aspects have been unintentionally discussed in details in the Flume architecture section, however we thought that separate section for these agent configuration is required. Since we don't want to repeat ourselves, we will be referring some aspects back to that section.

The following are main configurations...

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