Flume to migrate data from MySQL to Hadoop

Question

Please share your thoughts.

The requirement is to migrate the data in MySQL db to Hadoop/HBase for analytic purposes.

The data should be migrated real time o

Answer 1

To my understanding Flume is not meant for that. Flume is basically for reading log like data sources(flat files) and pushing them in a structured way to a sink. Sqoop can be of use, try it out http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/sqoop/SqoopUserGuide.html