Data ingestion from MapR Streams to Vertica

Hi Kaito

I don't think this will work. While there is some compatibility between kafka & mapr streams, Vertica uses the low-level kafka consumer C API, and that not supported by mapr streams according to http://maprdocs.mapr.com/home/MapR_Streams/MapRStreamsCApplications.html.

Beyond that, I see there are some other differences in semantics, such as the way offsets are managed (mapr streams starts at 1 vs 0 in kafka) and the way security is done. Those may not be deal breakers for you, but those differences would probably break some scheduler use cases.

Tom