What’s New in Apache Sqoop 1.4.2 by by Jarek Jarcec Cecho.
Jarek highlights the key features and fixes of this release of Apache Sqoop (its first as a top level project).
Those include:
- Hadoop 2.0.0 Support
- Compatibility with Old Connectors
- Incremental Imports of Free Form Queries
- Implicit and Explicit Connector Pickup Improvements
- Exporting Only a Subset of Columns
- Verbose Logging
- Hive Imports
From the Apache Sqoop homepage:
Apache Sqoop(TM) is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases.