LegStar for Apache Avro

[Fady]

As BigData analytics has become a major IT focus it is not surprising that Mainframe data needs to join in.

In this BigData domain, Apache Hadoop is an important player and with Hadoop comes Apache Avro, a serialization mechanism for complex data structures.

I have started a new legstar.avro project that aims at helping deliver mainframe data to Hadoop jobs. Mainframe data records are converted to Avro records.

You will notice several differences in this project as compared to the previous legstar projects:

• It is hosted on GitHub rather than Google Code
• As a consequence it uses Git rather than SVN
  
• The licence is now AGPL instead of the LGPL
  

Hope this will prove useful to some of you.

Fady