Apache Storm: HBase Bolt

Starting with version 0.9.2-incubating, Storm included support for HBase as bolt. You no longer need to seek third party packages to do that, which is a great news!

To refer to the APIs and documentation, you can go here.

I have coded a simple Storm application that takes Kafka as spout and HBase as bolt. In other words, the application will get its data from Kafka and then write to HBase.

One interesting item within Apache Storm is stream grouping (how tuples produced by spouts will be handled by available bolts). To read more about stream grouping, you can refer here.

Lastly, if you want to try it out yourself, you can download the sample codes here.

Storm UI that shows Kafka spout and HBase bolt processing