why not try https://github.com/linkedin/camus - camus is kafka to HDFS pipeline
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Rendy Bambang Junior < rendy.b.jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am planning to load data from Kafka to HDFS. Is it normal to use spark > streaming to load data from Kafka to HDFS? What are concerns on doing this? > > There are no processing to be done by Spark, only to store data to HDFS > from Kafka for storage and for further Spark processing > > Rendy >