Use Cases for NiFi and Kafka
- Cloud native streaming applications as well ingesting data in Cloudera Data Platform.
- Using NiFi to power cDP Ingest for various data services like
- Apache Hive for Data Engineering
- HBase
- Kudu for Data Mart and more
- Cloud Object stores etc.
- Using NiFi or custom producers/consumers to interact with Kafka.
- Enables cloud native streaming applications.
Cloudera Data Hub, NiFi and Kafka
- You can launch many of NiFi and Kafka clusters using Cloudera Data Hub in public cloud and connect with each other in one or more environments.
- All are governed and secured by single instance of Apache Ranger (Access policy) and Atlas (metadata and governance) instance.
- When you create Kafka Cluster on Cloudera Data Hub, you will get all this below components.