May 2017
Beginner to intermediate
596 pages
15h 2m
English
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Step 4 - Installing and verifying Sqoop
Sqoop has been changing in its form and features very rapidly since the Hadoop platform release. As mentioned before, the Sqoop framework, as it stands today, comes as Sqoop and Sqoop 2. While Sqoop is the older generation of the ETL framework in the Hadoop world, it is complete. On the other hand, Sqoop 2 is a more recent advancement with a REST-based interface but it is still not complete. For the purpose of installation, we'll cover the installation of the Sqoop version specifically.
Sqoop binary packages can be downloaded and extracted as given below:
- Download the binary package of sqoop with hadoop2 compatibility with the following command:
wget https://www-eu.apache.org/dist/sqoop/1.4.6/sqoop-1.4.6.bin__hadoop-2.0.4-alpha.tar.gz ...