@Neeraj Sabharwal, @Artem Ervits I'm seeing both the ODBC connector (can use for Hive) as well as a native HDFS connector. I'll try these. Thanks! 2016-02-03-08-33-36.png ... View more

Thanks @Neeraj Sabharwal but, unfortunately, Hive is not listed as a possible source. 2016-02-03-08-29-56.png ... View more

@Andrea Squizzato as @Artem Ervits suggested I'd start with Flume. Flume can handle multiple channels. I think this is the design you're looking for: 2016-02-03-07-42-02.png Or alternatively you can avoid the aggregation and write directly into the HDFS folders http://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html#hdfs-sink. You may also want to consider writing directly into a Hive sink http://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html#hive-sink ... View more

@luc tiber I will say you'll learn a lot! Also, at the end of it you'll better appreciate the ease of use provided by HDP. 🙂 ... View more

@luc tiber is there a pressing reason you are not using Hortonworks HDP? We're 100% open source and we provide a number of good installation guides. http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/Ambari/Ambari-2.2.0.0/index.html. The last time I installed directly from Apache was in 2012 and it was painful. ... View more

@Sai ram try it without the double '\'. For example, C:\Users\praveenkumarg\Desktop\Image.png ... View more