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Flume

Last updated May 16, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is Flume?

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of streaming data from many different sources to a centralized data store. It's often used to ingest log data into Hadoop for analysis.

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What other technologies are related to Flume?

Flume Competitor Technologies

Storm is a distributed real-time computation system, similar to Flume in that it can ingest and process streaming data.

mentioned alongside Flume in 6% (629) of relevant job posts

Spark Streaming

Spark Streaming is a component of Spark for processing real-time data streams, making it a competitor to Flume.

mentioned alongside Flume in 4% (519) of relevant job posts

Storm and Samza are stream processing engines, making them competitors to Flume.

mentioned alongside Flume in 34% (64) of relevant job posts

Flink is a stream processing framework that can also be used for batch processing, making it a competitor to Flume in some use cases.

mentioned alongside Flume in 2% (732) of relevant job posts

Flume Complementary Technologies

Sqoop is used to transfer data between Hadoop and relational databases. Flume focuses on streaming data.

mentioned alongside Flume in 28% (2k) of relevant job posts

HBase can be a destination for Flume data. Flume can ingest data and load it into HBase.

mentioned alongside Flume in 7% (1.8k) of relevant job posts

HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) is a common destination for Flume data. Flume ingests data and stores it in HDFS.

mentioned alongside Flume in 5% (1.1k) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention Flume?

Job function

Jobs mentioning Flume

Orgs mentioning Flume

Engineer

0% (3k) job posts

51 organizations

Software Engineer

0% (2.8k) job posts

220 organizations

Data Engineer

0% (1.4k) job posts

373 organizations

Data, Analytics & Machine Learning

0% (764) job posts

45 organizations

Data Architect

1% (323) job posts

113 organizations

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Which organizations are mentioning Flume?

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Scientific and Technical Services

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Bank of America

Finance and Insurance

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Professional Services

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