Data Lake for Enterprises

Summary

In this chapter, we started introducing or rather mapping technologies into the various data lake layers. In this chapter, we started with the technology introduction in the data acquisition layer. We started the chapter with the layer definition first, and then listed down reasons for choosing Sqoop by detailing both its advantages and disadvantages. We then covered Sqoop and its architecture in detail. While doing so, we covered two important versions of Sqoop, namely version 1 and 2. Soon after this theoretical section, we delved deep into the actual workings of Sqoop by giving the actual setup required to run Sqoop, and then delved deep into our SCV use case and what we are achieving using Sqoop.

After reading this chapter, you ...