Data Lake for Enterprises

Data Acquisition of Batch Data using Apache Sqoop

Now that we have discussed some of the essential elements of a data lake in the context of Lambda Architecture, it is imperative that the complete story around data lake starts from capturing the data from source systems, which we are referring to as Data Acquisition.

Data can be acquired from various systems, in which data may exist in various forms. Each of these data formats would need a specific way of data handling such that the data can be acquired from the source system and put to action within the boundaries of data lake.

In this chapter, we would be specifically looking at acquiring data from relational data sources, such as a Relational DataBase Management System (RDBMS) and discuss ...