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

I use flume to store data both on HDSF and in MySQL. For latter I use JDBC com.stratio.ingestion.sink.jdbc.JDBCsink. But I am not very satisfied with it performance. Since you need to migrate data from MySQL I would suggest using Sqoop. Another option is to use Flume to send data both to MySQL and HBase/Hadoop, thus you won't need to copy from MySQL to Hadoop/