For example, looking at the options I have when creating a job in the sqoop2 shell, it seems there is no Hive support yet. Is that correct?
Thanks :) ! -- Felix On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Felix GV <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello :) > > I've played around with Sqoop 1 a fair while ago (possibly before Apache > incubation) around the time of CDH3u3. There were a few minor kinks at the > time but overall it seemed to be already pretty good and stable at the > time, so I'm assuming Sqoop 1.4.2 can only be a lot better. > > I didn't end up needing Sqopp for my use cases after I experimented with > it at the time, but I'm now revisiting it and I just found out Sqoop 2 is > in the works. > > I'm now using CDH 4.1.2 and I'm planning to upgrade to the latest (CDH > 4.2) soon, which includes the first release of Sqoop 2 (1.99.1). > > I've read the architecture design articles and I think we could benefit > from some of the new capabilities. I've also scoured the last few months of > the (user) mailing list archive but haven't found much discussion regarding > Sqoop 2, besides the > announcement<http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/sqoop-user/201212.mbox/%3C20121226063212.GB28520%40jarcec-thinkpad%3E>and > a post saying the Web > UI isn't > included<http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/sqoop-user/201211.mbox/%3C20121128161809.GE6589%40jarcec-thinkpad%3E> > . > > I don't mind not having the Web UI yet, but I want to automate a couple of > Sqoop-based ETL scripts, and if there are any differences between the way > Sqoop 1 and 2 scripts are specified or used, then I'd like to start doing > them the version 2 way, so that my infrastructure is more future proof. > > This, of course, is assuming the non-web UI capabilities of Sqoop 2 are > mature enough for general usage. > > Can anyone comment on Sqoop 2's maturity? > > Should I subscribe to the dev mailing list instead if I'm interested in > Sqoop 2, or is the user list the right place for general (non-dev) related > Sqoop 2 questions? > > Thanks a lot guys (and gals?!) !! > > -- > Felix >
