Sqoop uses:
- Sqoop is a simple tool that is used for moving data.
- It is generally used move data from non hadoop data stores.
- These non hadoop data stores are the relational databases and data warehouses .
- Sqoop allows the users to specify the target (i.e) the place where the data is to be moved inside of hadoop from relational databases like Oracle,Teredata.
- Data ingestion is important in any big data project because the volume of data is generally in petabytes or exabytes.
- Hadoop Sqoop and Hadoop Flume are the two tools in Hadoop which is used to gather data from different sources and load them into HDFS.