100 MB messages

2014-05-13 Thread Wouter Bosland
Hello everyone, Can Kafka be used for binary large objects of 100 MB ? Or should I use a different solution to store these files like MongoDB and maybe send the location of these files in MongoDB over Kafka? Thanks is advance, Wouter

Re: 100 MB messages

2014-05-13 Thread Joe Stein
Or HDFS and use Kafka for the event of file, yup. Processing on the files can be done without the mapreduce overhead in Hadoop now using Apache Tez (or something that use Tez like Pig). /*** Joe Stein Founder, Principal Consultant Big Data Open

Re: 100 MB messages

2014-05-13 Thread Jay Kreps
It can, but it will not perform very well. Kafka fully instantiates messages in memory (as a byte[] basically) so if you send a 100MB message the server will do a 100MB allocation to hold that data prior to writing to disk. I think MongoDB does have blob support so passing a pointer via Kafka as