You may want to explore using Sqoop for this particular use-case. More information on Sqoop is available at the following links:
Sqoop Wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SQOOP/Home User Guide: http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/sqoop/SqoopUserGuide.html Thanks, Arvind 2011/9/27 lulynn_2008 <lulynn_2...@163.com>: > Hello, > If I want to transfer incremental data from database to HDFS. Can flume be > the middle layer? I mean flume get incremental data from database(such as > DB2), and then transfer the data to HDFS. Please give your suggestion. Thank > you. > >