Hi Suma Cherukuri, Apache Flink can certainly serve your use case very well. Here's why:
1) Apache Flink has a connectors for Kafka and ElasticSearch. It supports reading and writing to the S3 file system. 2) Apache Flink includes a RollingSink which splits up data into files with a configurable maximum file size. The RollingSink includes a "Bucketer" which lets you control when and how to create new directories or files. 3) Apache Flink's streaming API and runtime for event processing is one of the most advanced out there (support for Event Time, Windowing, exactly-once) These are just first pointers. Please don't hesitate to ask more questions. I think we would need a bit more details about your use case to understand how exactly you would use Apache Flink. Best, Max On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Suneel Marthi <smar...@apache.org> wrote: > From the Use Case description, it seems like u r looking to aggregate files > based on either a threshold size or threshold time and ship them to S3. > Correct? > > Flink might be an overkill here and u could look at frameworks like Apache > NiFi that have pre-built (and configurable) processors to do just what u r > describing here. > > > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Suma Cherukuri <suma_cheruk...@symantec.com >> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Good Afternoon! >> >> I work as an engineer at Symantec. My team works on Multi-tenant Event >> Processing System. Just a high level background, our customers write data >> to kafka brokers though agents like logstash and we process the events and >> save the log data in Elastic Search and S3. >> >> Use Case: We have a use case where in we write batches of events to S3 >> when file size limitation of 1MB (specific to our case) or a certain time >> threshold is reached. We are planning on merging the number of files >> specific to a folder into one single file based on either time limit such >> as every 24 hrs. >> >> We were considering various options available today and would like to >> know if Apache Flink can be used to serve the purpose. >> >> Looking forward to hearing from you. >> >> Thank you >> Suma Cherukuri >> >>
