The newest (and first) HBase sink was committed into trunk one week ago and was my point at the HBase workshop @Berlin Buzzwords. The slides are available in my slideshare channel. Let me explain how it works and how you get an Apache Flume - HBase flow running. First, you've got to checkout trunk and build the project (you need git and maven installed on your system): git clone git://git.apache.org/flume.git && cd flume && git checkout trunk && mvn package -DskipTests && cd flume-ng-dist/target Within trunk, the HBase sink is available in the sinks - directory ( ls -la flume-ng-sinks/flume-ng-hbase-sink/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/sink/hbase/ ) Please note a few specialities: The sink controls atm only HBase flush (), transaction and rollback. Apache Flume reads out the $CLASSPATH variable and uses the first available hbase-site.xml. If you use different versions of HBase on your system please keep that in mind. The HBase ta
Hey, I'm Alex. I founded X-Warp, Infinimesh, Infinite Devices, Scalytics and worked with Cloudera, E.On, Google, Evariant, and had the incredible luck to build products with outstanding people in my life, across the globe.