Data Lake for Enterprises

Event Serializers

To convert the event into format of your choice serializers can be a handy component whipped with the Flume installation. Only a very few sinks support serializers at the moment namely File_Roll sink and HDFS Sink. There are few serializers in the default installation of Flume as follows:

1. Body text terializer:
   • Writes the body of the event as is into an output stream
   • Event headers are however ignored while the stream is written
2. Flume event - avro event serializer:
   • Writes the event to an Avro container file
3. Avro event serializer:
   • This is similar to the preceding serializer but has configurable control over the record schema of the Avro container file