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Ajay Yadava commented on FALCON-36:
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We are going with database as the entity since datasource is so generic that we
can't enforce validations and support specific capabilities.
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Can you please elaborate? If we look at it conceptually they are all just
different types of datasources. IMHO creating new entity type per datasource
type, just for validation, is not a good idea.
> Ability to ingest data from databases
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> Key: FALCON-36
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FALCON-36
> Project: Falcon
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: acquisition
> Affects Versions: 0.3
> Reporter: Venkatesh Seetharam
> Assignee: Venkat Ramachandran
> Attachments: FALCON-36.patch, FALCON-36.rebase.patch,
> FALCON-36.review.patch, Falcon Data Ingestion - Proposal.docx,
> falcon-36.xsd.patch.1
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> Attempt to address data import from RDBMS into hadoop and export of data from
> Hadoop into RDBMS. The plan is to use sqoop 1.x to materialize data motion
> from/to RDBMS to/from HDFS. Hive will not be integrated in the first pass
> until Falcon has a first class integration with HCatalog.
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