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Apache Sqoop Cookbook
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Apache Sqoop Cookbook

by Kathleen Ting, Jarek Jarcec Cecho
July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
94 pages
1h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 1. Getting Started

This chapter will guide you through the basic prerequisites of using Sqoop. You will learn how to download and install Sqoop on your computer or on any node of your Hadoop cluster. Sqoop comes with a very detailed User Guide describing all the available parameters and basic usage. Rather than repeating the guide, this book focuses on applying the parameters to real use cases and helping you to deploy and use Sqoop effectively in your environment.

Downloading and Installing Sqoop

Problem

You want to install Sqoop on your computer or on any node in your Hadoop cluster.

Solution

Sqoop supports the Linux operating system, and there are several installation options. One option is the source tarball that is provided with every release. This tarball contains only the source code of the project. You can’t use it directly and will need to first compile the sources into binary executables. For your convenience, the Sqoop community provides a binary tarball for each major supported version of Hadoop along with the source tarball.

In addition to the tarballs, there are open source projects and commercial companies that provide operating system-specific packages. One such project, Apache Bigtop, provides rpm packages for Red Hat, CentOS, SUSE, and deb packages for Ubuntu and Debian. The biggest benefit of using packages over tarballs is their seamless integration with the operating system: for example, Configuration files are stored in /etc/ and logs in /var/log.

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