Sqoop is a tool,part of hadoop ecosystem,which is mainly used for importing data from relational databases(RDMS) to Hadoop file system(HDFS) and exporting data from hadoop file system to relational databases.

Behind the scene,sqoop uses Map reduce to import and export the data set.Hence the processing will be parallel and fault tolerance.

• Sqoop list-databases and list-tables
• Sqoop eval
• Sqoop import
• Customizing mappers
• File format and compression
• Filtering
• Handling nulls and delimiters
• Increemental Loads
• Hive import
• Import all tables
• Sqoop export