Time for action – exporting data from MySQL to HDFS

We'll use a straightforward example here, where we just pull all the data from a single MySQL table and write it to a single file on HDFS.

  1. Run Sqoop to export data from MySQL onto HDFS: 
    $ sqoop import --connect jdbc:mysql://10.0.0.100/hadooptest 
--username hadoopuser \ > --password password --table employees
    Time for action – exporting data from MySQL to HDFS
  2. Examine the output directory:
    $ hadoop fs -ls employees

    You will receive the following response:

    Found 6 items
-rw-r--r--   3 hadoop supergroup          0 2012-05-21 04:10 /user/hadoop/employees/_SUCCESS
drwxr-xr-x   - hadoop supergroup          0 2012-05-21 04:10 /user/hadoop/employees/_logs
-rw-r--r-- 3 … /user/hadoop/employees/part-m-00000 ...

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