Data Lake for Enterprises

When to use Flume

Some of the consideration which you can use when choosing Flume for handling different use cases is as follows - choose Flume when you want:

• To acquire data from a variety of source and store into Hadoop system
• To handle high-velocity and high-volume data into Hadoop system
• Reliable delivery of data to the destination
• A scalable solution that can run quite easily just by adding more machine to it, when the velocity and volume of data increases
• The capability of dynamically configuring the various components in the architecture without incurring any downtime.
• To achieve a single point of contact for all the various configurations based on which the overall architecture is functioning