You could probably save yourself a lot of hassle by just writing a Spark job that scans through the entire table, converts each row to JSON and dumps the output into a Kafka topic. It should be fairly straightforward to implement.
Spark will manage the partitioning of "Producer" processes for you - no need for a "Coordinator" topic. On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 at 05:49 Tobias Eriksson <tobias.eriks...@qvantel.com> wrote: > Hi > > I would like to make a dump of the database, in JSON format, to KAFKA > > The database contains lots of data, millions and in some cases billions of > “rows” > > I will provide the customer with an export of the data, where they can > read it off of a KAFKA topic > > > > My thinking was to have it scalable such that I will distribute the token > range of all available partition-keys to a number of (N) processes > (JSON-Producers) > > First I will have a process which will read through the available tokens > and then publish them on a KAFKA “Coordinator” Topic > > And then I can create 1, 10, 20 or N processes that will act as Producers > to the real KAFKA topic, and pick available tokens/partition-keys off of > the “Coordinator” Topic > > One by one until all the “rows” have been processed. > > So the JOSN-Producer will take e.g. a range of 1000 “rows” and convert > them into my own JSON format and post to KAFKA > > And then after that take another 1000 “rows” and then …. And then another > 1000 “rows” and so on, until it is done. > > > > I base my idea on how I believe Apache Spark Connector accomplishes data > locality, i.e. being aware of where tokens reside and figured that since > that is possible it should be possible to create a job-list in a KAFKA > topic, and have each Producer pick jobs from there, and read up data from > Cassandra based on the partition key (token) and then post the JSON on the > export KAFKA topic. > > https://dzone.com/articles/data-locality-w-cassandra-how > > > > > > Would you consider this a good idea ? > > Would there in fact be a better idea, what would that be then ? > > > > -Tobias > > > -- *Justin Cameron*Senior Software Engineer <https://www.instaclustr.com/> This email has been sent on behalf of Instaclustr Pty. Limited (Australia) and Instaclustr Inc (USA). This email and any attachments may contain confidential and legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not copy or disclose its content, but please reply to this email immediately and highlight the error to the sender and then immediately delete the message.
