Flume extensions catalogue

This document details the catalogue of extensions developed for Cygnus on top of Apache Flume.

Intended audience

The Flume extensions catalogue is a basic piece of documentation for all those FIWARE users using Cygnus. It describes the available extra components added to the Flume technology in order to deal with Twitter-like data.

Software developers may also be interested in this catalogue since it may guide the creation of new components (specially, sinks) for Cygnus/Flume.

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Structure of the document

This document describes the Twitter Source and Twitter HDFS sink. TwitterSource is a source designed to collect data from Twitter. This document contains an explanation about TwitterSource configuration and functionality. TwitterHDFSSink sink is currently the only one supported by the cygnus-twitter agent. This document contains an explanation about TwitterHDFSSink functionality (including how the information within a Flume event is mapped into the storage data structures), configuration, uses cases and implementation details are given.

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