Apache Flume: An Introduction

Apache Flume is an open-source distributed system originated at Cloudera and developed by the Apache Software Foundation. Designed for efficient data extraction, aggregation, and movement from various sources to a centralized storage or processing system, Flume is commonly used in big data environments.

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