Mohit, This sounds like something where you would want your web tier to directly access HBase through its existing client API.
Do you need functionality not offered there? - Patrick On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Hari Shreedharan <[email protected]> wrote: > Mohit, > > Flume NG does not really have an HBase source. More importantly our sources > do not actually pull data. It waits for data to be pushed to it, at least > that is what all the current sources do. I don't know if it is a good idea > to have a source proactively pull stuff from a source. But Flume is designed > to make practically everything pluggable, so you can write your own source > that does this. > > > Hari > > -- > Hari Shreedharan > > On Saturday, August 4, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Mohit Anchlia wrote: > > I am prototyping flume ng for real time sink to hbase and hdfs for > clickstream. I was wondering if Flume provides something that can read from > HBase too. That is API request comes to our web server and after we receive > the request we use flume to retrieve the result from HBase. Is flume ng > meant for this type of scenario? > >
