Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦Top 25 Use Cases of Cloudera Flow Management Powered by Apache NiFi
Cloudera Flow Management has proven immensely popular in solving so many different use cases I thought I would make a list of the top twenty-five that I have seen recently.
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25. Ingesting Data into Kafka in the Public Cloud
24. Cybersecurity Data Collection and Filtering
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2020/10/monitoring-mac-laptops-with-apache-nifi.html
23. Ingesting Data into Hive in the Public Cloud
22. Ingesting Data into HBase in the Public Cloud
21. Ingesting Data into Kudu in the Public Cloud
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20. Ingesting Data into ADLS Storage
19. Populate SOLR Indexes
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2020/04/building-search-indexes-with-apache.html
18. Hadoop Data to Kafka
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2020/04/read-apache-impala-apache-kudu-tables.html
17. Deep Learning And Machine Learning Pipelines
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2019/12/easy-deep-learning-in-apache-nifi-with.html
16. Intercepting JMS and SOA
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2019/10/migrating-apache-flume-flows-to-apache_42.html
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15. Edge ML Model Integration
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2019/08/updating-machine-learning-models-at.html
14. Migrate Data from On-Premise Private Cloud to Public Cloud
https://docs.cloudera.com/cfm/2.0.4/site-to-site/topics/cdf-datahub-site-to-site.html
13. Converting XML to JSON
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2020/07/ingesting-all-weather-data-with-apache.html
12. MQTT to HDFS
11. Ingesting REST Endpoints (Bulk)
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2020/07/ingesting-all-weather-data-with-apache.html
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10. Ingesting Data into AWS S3 Buckets
9. Ingest REST Endpoints
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2020/05/cloudera-flow-management-101-lets-build.html
8. Ingesting SAAS Products Like Salesforce
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2019/11/ingest-salesforce-data-into-hive-using.html
7. Automating Manual Tasks
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2020/09/using-google-forms-as-a-data-source-for.html
6. Ingesting Social Media Data
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2020/04/harnessing-data-lifecycle-for-customer.html
Top 5
5. Logs, Logs, Logs
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2019/10/migrating-apache-flume-flows-to-apache_35.html
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2019/08/migrating-apache-flume-flows-to-apache.html
4. FLaNK Streaming Data Pipeline (Any Data to Kafka to Flink SQL)
3. IoT - MiNiFi Agents Ingest, Store and Forward
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2020/02/edgeai-google-coral-with-coral.html
2. Pseudo-CDC / Database Ingest
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2019/10/migrating-apache-flume-flows-to-apache_15.html
1. Doing a 1,000 different ingest, conversion, routing and transformation flows
The most common use case is doing a lot of things with a lot of data, including things like documents, XML, JSON, AVRO, Parquet, CSV, PDF, Images, Video, Mongo documents, Logs and more. Rarely do I ever see someone solve just one problem with NiFi and say, that was enough. One simple use cases leads to another and another and before you know it every cron job, script, ETL, ELT and big data op is now touched by NiFi. Keep it up, Cloudera will make it ever easier soon. Also check out NiFi Stateless for some of those more job/event oriented things like File to Kafka, Kafka to Kafka and more.
