The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Sqoop as a Top-Level Project
[this announcement is also available
online at http://s.apache.org/mU]
Open Source big data tool used for
efficient bulk transfer between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores.
Forest Hill, MD --The Apache Software
Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of
nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache
Sqoop has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project
(TLP), signifying that the Project’s community and products have been
well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles.
Designed to efficiently transfer bulk
data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational
databases, Apache Sqoop allows the import of data from external datastores and
enterprise data warehouses into Hadoop Distributed File System or related
systems like Apache Hive and HBase.
"The Sqoop Project has demonstrated
its maturity by graduating from the Apache Incubator," explained Arvind
Prabhakar, Vice President of Apache Sqoop. "With jobs transferring data on
the order of billions of rows, Sqoop is proving its value as a critical
component of production environments."
Building on the Hadoop infrastructure,
Sqoop parallelizes data transfer for fast performance and best utilization of
system and network resources. In addition, Sqoop allows fast copying of data
from external systems to Hadoop to make data analysis more efficient and
mitigates the risk of excessive load to external systems.
"Connectivity to other databases
and warehouses is a critical component for the evolution of Hadoop as an
enterprise solution, and that's where Sqoop plays a very important role"
said Deepak Reddy, Hadoop Manager at Coupons.com. "We use Sqoop
extensively to store and exchange data between Hadoop and other warehouses like
Netezza. The power of Sqoop also comes in the ability to write free-form
queries against structured databases and pull that data into Hadoop."
"Sqoop has been an integral part of
our production data pipeline" said Bohan Chen, Director of the Hadoop
Development and Operations team at Apollo Group. "It provides a reliable
and scalable way to import data from relational databases and export the
aggregation results to relational databases."
Since entering the Apache Incubator in
June 2011, Sqoop was quickly embraced as an ideal SQL-to-Hadoop data transfer
solution. The Project provides connectors for popular systems such as MySQL,
PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server and DB2, and also allows for the development of
drop-in connectors that provide high speed connectivity with specialized
systems like enterprise data warehouses.
Craig Ling, Director of Business Systems
at Tsavo Media, said "We adopted the use of Sqoop to transfer data into
and out of Hadoop with our other systems over a year ago. It is straight
forward and easy to use, which has opened the door to allow team members to
start consuming data autonomously, maximizing the analytical value of our data
repositories."
Availability and Oversight
Apache Sqoop software is released under
the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active
contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the
Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product
releases. Apache Sqoop source code, documentation, mailing lists, and related
resources are available at http://sqoop.apache.org/.
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