How can InfluxDB be used as Spark Source

Question

How can an InfluxDB database (which has streaming data coming in) be used as Source for Spark Streaming ? Also, Is it possible to use InfluxDB instead of SparkSQL for performing computations on datasets ?

Animalist

Did you find a way for achieving this? – Veronica

Answer 1

You can do so, assuming you're using Java, you can install InfluxDB's Java client library and write a SQL query to get the data. Yes you don't need to use SparkSQL.

Hunger