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Apache NiFi

Apache NiFi is the tool to read from the source and distribute data across different types of sinks. There are multiple types of source and sink connectors available. Download NiFi Version 1.1.1 from https://archive.apache.org/dist/nifi/1.1.1/nifi-1.1.1-bin.tar.gz to your local machine. Once the nifi-1.1.1-bin.tar.gz file is downloaded, extract the files:

    cp nifi-1.1.1-bin.tar.gz /home/ubuntu/demo
    cd /home/ubuntu/demo
    tar -xvf nifi-1.1.1-bin.tar.gz

The following files and folder are extracted, as shown in the following screenshot:

Start NiFi as follows:

    /bin/nifi.sh start

NiFi is started in the background. To check whether NiFi ...

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