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Apache Flume 1.2.x and HBase

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