I think it's important to know whether or not some form of parallelism (other than throughput) is required, otherwise a standard webservice seems sufficient for this use case.
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 07:46:35AM -0400, Andrew Perepelytsya wrote: > You can build request response type topologies via DRPC. However, unless we're > talking about processing numerous pdfs at once - bad fit, IMO. > > If there is parallelism required you might be better off with a custom yarn > app > - looks like YAYA makes it tolerable top write. > > Andrew > > On Apr 28, 2014 2:41 AM, "Deepak Sharma" <deepakmc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > Just wanted to check if this can be valid storm use case. > I want to write 1 simple storm topology which can read pdf file , process > it , make some changes like convert it to doc and save the new file. > I know this can be easily done in batch mode using hadoop.But we want to > do > it in real time ,i.e. when the user demands it. > We already do it using some java api but it takes lot of time in all > conversions. > Can this be achieved in Storm?If yes , Is there any pointer to any > examples > similar to this use case? > > > -- > Thanks > Deepak > www.bigdatabig.com > > > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to > which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, > privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of > this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or forwarding of > this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this > communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete it > from your system. Thank You.