The document presents an overview of Apache NiFi, a platform designed for managing enterprise data flows. It highlights key features such as visual command and control, data lineage, and extensibility, and describes its main use cases, including the reliable transfer and preparation of data. Additionally, it provides insight into the community engagement aspect, encouraging participation in the Hortonworks community.

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Timothy Spann
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Agenda
• Apache NiFi RDBMS, EDI, JSON, CSV, Sensors
• EDI
• https://community.hortonworks.com/content/kbentry/59975/in
gesting-edi-into-hdfs-using-hdf-20.html
• https://github.com/tspannhw/EnterpriseNIFI

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Flow Management Flow management + Stream Processing
D A T A I N M O T I O N D A T A A T R E S T
IoT Data Sources AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Hadoop
NiFi
Kafka
Storm
Others…
NiFi
NiFi NiFi
MiNiFi
MiNiFi
MiNiFi
MiNiFi
MiNiFi
MiNiFi
MiNiFi
NiFi
HDF 2.1 – Data in Motion Platform
Enterprise Services
Ambari Ranger Other services

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Actionable Insights Architecture
Ingestion
Simple Event Processing
Engine
Complex Event Processing
Destination
Data Bus
Build
Predictive Model
From Historical Data
Deploy
Predictive Model
For Real-time Insights
Perishable Insights
Historical Insights

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Actionable Intelligence Transforms Industrial, Transportation &
Utilities
Asset
Data
Customer
Surveys
Weather &
Environmental
Service Fleet
GPS Data
Smart Meter
Streams
Commodity
Prices
REVENUE
PROTECTION
SINGLE VIEW
OF CUSTOMER
PREDICTIVE EQUIPMENT
MAINTENANCE
CONSERVATION
VOLTAGE REDUCTION
COMMODITY
TRADING
Social
Media
GIS
Data
SCADA Outage
Histories
CIS
Records
EDW

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What is Apache NiFi?
• Created to address the challenges of global enterprise dataflow
• Key features:
– Visual Command and Control
– Data Lineage (Provenance)
– Data Prioritization
– Data Buffering/Back-Pressure
– Control Latency vs. Throughput
– Secure Control Plane / Data Plane
– Scale Out Clustering
– Extensibility

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Apache NiFi
What is Apache NiFi used for?
• Reliable and secure transfer of data between systems
• Delivery of data from sources to analytic platforms
• Enrichment and preparation of data:
– Conversion between formats
– Extraction/Parsing
– Routing decisions
What is Apache NiFi NOT used for?
• Distributed Computation
• Complex Event Processing
• Complex Rolling Window Operations

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NiFi Terminology
FlowFile
• Unit of data moving through the system
• Content + Attributes (key/value pairs)
Processor
• Performs the work, can access FlowFiles
Connection
• Links between processors
• Queues that can be dynamically prioritized

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Contact:
Timothy Spann @PaaSDeV
www.meetup.com/futureofdata-princeton
community.hortonworks.com/users/9304/tspann.html

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Hortonworks Community Connection
Read access for everyone, join to participate and be recognized
• Full Q&A Platform (like StackOverflow)
• Knowledge Base Articles
• Code Samples and Repositories

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