Data Lake for Enterprises

Advantages of Sqoop

Below are the advantages of Apache Sqoop, which is also the reason for choosing this technology in this layer.

• Allows the transfer of data with a variety of structured data stores like Postgres, Oracle, Teradata, and so on.
• Since the data is transferred and stored in Hadoop, Sqoop allows us to offload certain processing done in the ETL (Extract, Load and Transform) process into low-cost, fast, and effective Hadoop processes.
• Sqoop can execute the data transfer in parallel, so execution can be quick and more cost effective.
• Helps to integrate with sequential data from the mainframe. This helps not only to limit the usage of the mainframe, but also reduces the high cost in executing certain jobs using mainframe hardware. ...