Sqooping Data with Hue by Abraham Elmahrek.
From the post:
Hue, the open source Web UI that makes Apache Hadoop easier to use, has a brand-new application that enables transferring data between relational databases and Hadoop. This new application is driven by Apache Sqoop 2 and has several user experience improvements, to boot.
Sqoop is a batch data migration tool for transferring data between traditional databases and Hadoop. The first version of Sqoop is a heavy client that drives and oversees data transfer via MapReduce. In Sqoop 2, the majority of the work was moved to a server that a thin client communicates with. Also, any client can communicate with the Sqoop 2 server over its JSON-REST protocol. Sqoop 2 was chosen instead of its predecessors because of its client-server design.
I knew I was missing one or more Hadoop ecosystem components yesterday! Hadoop Ecosystem Configuration Woes? I left Hue out but also some others.
The Hadoop “ecosystem” varies depending on which open source supporter you read. I didn’t take the time to cross-check my list against all the major supporters. Will be correcting that over the weekend.
This will give you something “practical” to do over the weekend. 😉