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Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data.
Flume是一个分布式、可靠且可用的服务，用于高效地收集、聚合和移动大量日志数据。
The Flume agent is the core component that collects data from various sources.
Flume代理是核心组件，用于从各种来源收集数据。
Flume supports several channel types such as memory channels and file channels.
Flume支持多种通道类型，如内存通道和文件通道。
You can configure Flume to run in different modes like batch processing or real-time streaming.
您可以配置Flume以不同的模式运行，例如批处理或实时流式传输。
Flume has a pluggable architecture, allowing you to easily add new components or modify existing ones.
Flume具有可插拔架构，允许您轻松添加新组件或修改现有组件。
The Flume agent can be scaled horizontally by adding more agents or vertically by increasing the resources of each agent.
通过添加更多代理或增加每个代理的资源，可以水平扩展Flume代理。
Flume can be used with Hadoop for storing and processing large datasets.
可以将Flume与Hadoop结合使用，用于存储和处理大型数据集。
The Flume source determines where the data comes from; it could be a file system, network socket, or another system.
Flume源确定数据来自何处；它可以是文件系统、网络套接字或另一个系统。
Flume's sink is responsible for writing data to its final destination, which could be a file, database, or another system.
Flume的Sink负责将数据写入其最终目的地，这可能是文件、数据库或另一个系统。
Flume's channel acts as a buffer between the source and sink, temporarily storing the data while it's being transferred.
Flume的通道作为源和sink之间的缓冲区，暂时存储在传输过程中数据。