What's new in Apache Sqoop 1.4.2

Sqoop 1.4.2 was released in August 2012. As this was an extremely important release for the Sqoop community - our first release as an Apache Top Level project - I would like to highlight the key features and fixes of this release. The entire change log can be viewed on our JIRA and actual bits can be downloaded from the usual place. [Read More]

Posted at 02:44PM Nov 07, 2012 by jarcec in General  |  Comments[0]  | 

Sqoop Graduation Meetup

Cloudera hosted the Apache Sqoop Meetup last week at Cloudera HQ in Palo Alto. About 20 of the Meetup attendees had not used Sqoop before, but were interested enough to participate in the Meetup on April 4th. We believe this healthy interest in Sqoop will contribute to its wide adoption. Not only was this Sqoop's second Meetup but also a celebration for Sqoop's graduation from the Incubator, cementing its status as a Top-Level Project in the Apache Software Foundation.[Read More]

Posted at 08:11PM Apr 09, 2012 by kathleen in General  |  Comments[2]  | 

Apache Sqoop Graduates from Incubator

Sqoop recently graduated from Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project. This post describes a brief history of Sqoop from its inception to becoming a TLP.[Read More]

Posted at 10:44AM Apr 02, 2012 by arvind in General  |  Comments[3]  | 

Apache Sqoop: Highlights of Sqoop 2

The popularity of Apache Sqoop (incubating) in enterprise systems confirms that Sqoop does bulk transfer admirably. That said, to enhance its functionality, Sqoop needs to fulfill data integration use-cases as well as become easier to manage and operate. Sqoop 2 addresses these issues and its high-level design overview is detailed in this post.

Posted at 02:58PM Jan 12, 2012 by arvind in General  |  Comments[1]  | 

What's New in Apache Sqoop 1.4.0-incubating

Apache Sqoop recently celebrates its first incubator release, version 1.4.0-incubating. This blog post highlights some of the newly added features for this release.

Posted at 12:15PM Dec 30, 2011 by Blee in General  |  Comments[0]  | 

Inaugural Sqoop Meetup

Earlier this month over 30 people attended the inaugural Sqoop Meetup on the eve of Hadoop World in NYC. Faces were put to names, troubleshooting tips were swapped, and stories were topped. This post summarizes the Meetup, posts pictures from it, and links to the three presentations.

Posted at 05:29PM Nov 21, 2011 by arvind in General  |  Comments[0]  | 

Apache Sqoop - Overview

This post provides a high-level overview of Apache Sqoop (incubating). It discusses the general problem addressed by Sqoop and provides simple examples on how to use it. This post is written by Arvind Prabhakar, who is a Sqoop committer.

Posted at 06:38PM Oct 05, 2011 by arvind in General  |  Comments[14]  |