Thanks for your reply. I have a small cluster of machines (15) running 0.20.append. Will upgrading this to 0.21 an option ? Is 0.21 still completely unstable for production environments ?
Thank you, Saurabh On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Eric Wadsworth <e...@wadhome.org> wrote: > Saurabh, > > I am also trying to figure out how best to use sqoop on a non-CDH cluster. > From what I have learned, they are trying to get sqoop version 1.4.x stable > on apache hadoop 0.23.x for now. Which is still in alpha. And it doesn't > work at all with anything before 0.21 (except for Cloudera distributions). > So we are kinda on our own, as far as I can tell, until hadoop 0.23 is > released and we upgrade to it, or until they resolve > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-384 > > --- wad > > > On 12/05/2011 07:18 PM, Saurabh Sehgal wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am evaluating sqoop to do DB extracts from our relational stores. >> The hadoop cluster running in production for us is Hadoop 0.20.append. >> According to the sqoop introduction page on github: >> >> "Sqoop relies on advanced features of Apache Hadoop. As such, it >> requires the latest beta of Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop (CDH3 >> beta 2). Sqoop may be compatible with the Apache 0.21.0 release, but >> this is considered experimental and should not be used in production. >> The COMPILING.txt file describes how to select a Hadoop distribution >> to target at compilation time." >> >> Does this still hold true ? All I want to do is incrementally import >> tables from an Oracle database. Can someone explain what features are >> missing from the non cloudera distributions and why is it unsafe to >> use them in production ? >> >> Thank you. > >
