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Re:Apache Kafka 0.9 is released by mathnode on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @12:13PM (#10622040)
The only other beast of similar nature that appears occasionally I can think of, is Onyx. Which seems pretty cool.

Anyway,Kafka Connect will provide what probably most people are looking for in Samza.

Re:Apache Kafka 0.9 is released by nehanarkhede on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @12:26PM (#10622130)
That observation is correct. Currently, people misuse stream processing systems like Storm and Samza for data import/export. This is an overkill. Kafka Connect is focused on providing scalable and operational connectors to various systems using Kafka as the underlying transport mechanism.
Re:Apache Kafka 0.9 is released by zodvik on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @02:15PM (#10622856)
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We have built a fairly robust system along the idea of Kafka Connect and it's open sourced at https://github.com/flipkart/aesop. Currently, it supports MySQL & Hbase as sources and MySQL, Hbase, ES, Kafka as destination.

Re:Apache Kafka 0.9 is released by erichmond on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @03:33PM (#10623468)
Haha, funny you mention Onyx! We pipe data from kafka into storm :) Great combo!