Hi all, Sorry if it is not appropriate to send one thread into two maillist. ** I'm tring to use hadoop and hive to do some log analytic jobs.
Our system generate lots of logs every day, for example, it produce about 370GB logs(including lots of log files) yesterday, and every day the logs increases. And we want to use hadoop and hive to replace our old log analysic system. We distinguish our logs with logid, we have an log collector which will collect logs from clients and then generate log files. for every logid, there will be one log file every hour, for some logid, this hourly log file can be 1~2GB I have set up an test cluster with hadoop and hive, and I have run some test which seems good for us. For reference, we will create one table in hive for every logid which will be partitoned by hour. Now I have a question, what's the best practice for loading logs files into hdfs or hive warehouse dir ? My first thought is, at the begining of every hour, compress the log file of the last hour of every logid and then use the hive cmd tool to load these compressed log files into hdfs. using commands like "LOAD DATA LOCAL inpath '$logname' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE $tablename PARTITION (dt='$h') " I think this can work, and I have run some test on our 3-nodes test clusters. But the problem is, there are lots of logid which means there are lots of log files, so every hour we will have to load lots of files into hdfs and there is another problem, we will run hourly analysis job on these hourly collected log files, which inroduces the problem, because there are lots of log files, if we load these log files at the same time at the begining of every hour, I think there will some network flows and there will be data delivery latency problem. For data delivery latency problem, I mean it will take some time for the log files to be copyed into hdfs, and this will cause our hourly log analysis job to start later. So I want to figure out if we can write or append logs into an compressed file which is already located in hdfs, and I have posted an thread in the mailist, and from what I have learned, this is not possible. So, what's the best practice of loading logs into hdfs while using hive to do log analytic? Or what's the common methods to handle problem I have describe above? Can anyone give me some advices? Thank you very much for your help!
