Hi Team Kafka, (sorry for the flood, this is last one! promise!)
If you tried out PR-99, you know that CopyCat now does on-going export/import. So it will continuously read data from a source and write it to Kafka (or vice versa). This is great for tailing logs and replicating from MySQL binlog. But, I'm wondering if there's a need for a batch-mode too. This can be useful for: * Camus-like thing. You can stream data to HDFS, but the benefits are limited and there are some known issues there. * Dump large parts of an RDBMS at once. Do you agree that this need exist? or is stream export/import good enough? Also, anyone has ideas how he would like the batch mode to work? Gwen
