why not?
you can use sqoop to import to plain text files or avrofiles or squence
files
here is one example
sqoop import
--connect <conn>
--username <user>
-P
--table <table>
--columns "column1,column2,column3,.."
--as-textfile
--target-dir <hdfs dir>
-m 1
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Fatih Haltas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am trying to import data from postgresql to hdfs via sqoop, however, all
> examples, i got on internet is talking about hive,hbase etc. kind of
> system,running within hadoop.
>
> I am not using, any of these systems, isnt it possible to import data
> without having those kind of systems,running on hadoop via sqoop?
>
> In other words, I am using hadoop and mapreduce systems itself alone, is
> it possible to import data from postgresql to that basic hadoop system via
> sqoop?
>
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Nitin Pawar
