Sqoop is designed to:
Sqoop is a Hadoop command line program to (process/transfer) data between:
data sources through MapReduce programs.
You can use Sqoop to import and export data.
Sqoop is a collection of related tools.
The sqoop command-line program is a wrapper which runs the bin/hadoop script shipped with Hadoop.
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## Binary location
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export HADOOP_COMMON_HOME=/path/to/some/hadoop \
export HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME=/path/to/some/hadoop-mapreduce \
# if HADOOP_COMMON_HOME and HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME are not used
export HADOOP_HOME=
# if HADOOP_HOME is not set default installation locations for Apache Bigtop,
# * /usr/lib/hadoop
# * and /usr/lib/hadoop-mapreduce
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## Configuration location
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# default value
export HADOOP_CONF_DIR=$HADOOP_HOME/conf/
################
## Run
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sqoop import --arguments...
To use Sqoop, you must configure Sqoop properties in a JDBC connection and run the mapping in the Hadoop environment.
Users of a packaged deployment of Sqoop (such as an RPM shipped with Apache Bigtop) will see this program installed in.
/usr/bin/
Sqoop is a collection of related tools.