Data Lake for Enterprises

Advantages of Flume

Some of the core advantages of Apache Flume which made this technology chosen are as detailed here in bullet points:

• Open source.
• Very good documentation, with many examples and patterns of how these can be applied, is available.
• High throughput with low latency.
• Declarative configuration.
• Inherently distributed.
• Highly reliable, available, and scalable (horizontally).
• Highly extensible and customizable.
• Less costly installation, operation and maintenance.
• Contextual routing aspect has a dedication subsection in this chapter. But for you to have a heads-up, this is an aspect of Flume to look at the payload (stream data or event) and construct a routing which is apt.
• Build-in support for a variety of source and destination ...