September 2010 Summaries

Flume, an open source project for efficiently collecting and moving large amounts of log data, has generated interest in using Cassandra as a destination or "sink" for its data. A new Cassandra plugin for Flume offers two sinks: one that indexes entries by date and another designed to store syslog events for use with the Logsandra search engine. The plugin is open source under the MIT license and can be found at http://github.com/thobbs/flume-cassandra-plugin.