May 2017
Beginner to intermediate
596 pages
15h 2m
English
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Sqoop connectors
Sqoop connector allows Sqoop job to:
- Connect to the desired database system (import and export)
- Extract data from the database system (export) and
- Load the data to the database system (import)
Apache Sqoop allows itself to be extended in the form of having the capability of plugin codes, which is specialized in data transfer with a particular database system. This capability is a part of Sqoop’s extension framework and can be added to any installation of Sqoop. Sqoop 1 does have this capability and Sqoop 2 extends this aspect even further and adds many new features (the comparison section before has covered this aspect). Sqoop 2 has better integration using well defined connector API’s.
For transferring data when Sqoop ...