--- title: Apache Sqoop Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache Sqoop Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 31 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache Sqoop works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 31 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Cloud Data Integration url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-data-integration --- # Apache Sqoop Reviews & Product Details Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache Sqoop Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-sqoop/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-sqoop/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Azure Data Factory](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure Data Factory") Azure Data Factory 4.6/5(101) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-data-factory/reviews) [ ![AWS Glue](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "AWS Glue") AWS Glue 4.3/5(202) ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-glue/reviews) [ ![SnapLogic Intelligent Integration Platform (IIP)](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SnapLogic Intelligent Integration Platform (IIP)") SnapLogic Intelligent Integration Platform (IIP) 4.4/5(404) ](https://www.g2.com/products/snaplogic-intelligent-integration-platform-iip/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-sqoop/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 31 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Shubhashish V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shubhashish V.") SV Shubhashish V. Data Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/24/2023 "Data sqoop from informatica and oracle in Big data applications" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sqoop? Apache is very helpful in extracting big data set with minimal time .It can be integrated and implemented with many of similar application where big data is involved with frequency use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sqoop? Sometimes query takes more time in execution when many join or left outer join or other join involved with extra filter in where condition . The failure during partial import happened in long query Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sqoop solving and how is that benefiting you? It is helping in creating big data set from 2 or many table with filter in easy way so that we can use that optimise data to support or develop our applications for business User Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Zubin D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Zubin D.") ZD Zubin D. Associate Software Engineering Manager Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/9/2023 "A versatile utility for data move movement and basic sql functions." 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sqoop? The simplicity with which the tool can be used at the get with minimal setup in a distributed environment and the short learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sqoop? The logging seemed to be something I personally struggled with identifying data anomalies when came to data movement in my use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sqoop solving and how is that benefiting you? Data movement between a distributed environment and a relation database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Kubendra Reddy M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kubendra Reddy M.") KM Kubendra Reddy M. Data Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/18/2022 "Standard CLI tool for importing and exporting data from Hadoop" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sqoop? Best thing about is it excutes the data transfer parallel.It allows to transfer the data from variety of structured databases. It has huge support community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sqoop? Under the hood it uses MapReduce which takes time for even small data transfer. Implementing Change data capture and incremental loads is quite complex.It cannot be paused and resumed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Sqoop: Standard data transfer tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sqoop solving and how is that benefiting you? We used to import the dtaa from RDBMS to Hadoop cluster and used to export the data from Hadoop to RDBMS. We used this to transfer the data parallely for better performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite GS GouriS S. Data Scientist Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/19/2021 "Apache Sqoop for collecting social data" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sqoop? The best thing about apache sqoop is it provides easy configuration for getting the data in real time from source system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sqoop? The thing which i disliked about apache sqoop is once the pipleline is broked then it is tough to recover lost messages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sqoop solving and how is that benefiting you? I have used apache Sqoop for getting the real time data from twitter source apis and then process the data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Nikunj P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nikunj P.") NP Nikunj P. Senior Software Engineer Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/23/2020 "Very useful and easy to use." 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sqoop? The usage is very simple. It's very user friendly. We need not write lot of lines of code to get the data from db or write back to db Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sqoop? There is nothing I can see as of now. If we get supporfor swooping nosql dbs that would be great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sqoop solving and how is that benefiting you? For data warehouse and analytics we are sqooping data from various dbs and making it available in Hadoop for processing and analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Saurav M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Saurav M.") SM Saurav M. Big Data Developer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/16/2020 "The Best application for transferring data between relational databases and Hadoop" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sqoop? The simplicity and effectiveness of the application wins my heart. Also, user-centric design is awesome. I am using Sqoop to import data from external datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related Hadoop eco-systems like Hive and HBase. The best benefit is how easy it is to use and how fast it is. Sqoop can easily integrate with Hadoop and dump structured data from relational databases on HDFS, complimenting the power of Hadoop. This is why Big Data and Hadoop certification mandates a sound knowledge of Apache Sqoop and Flume. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sqoop? I did not really find anything that I didn't like but if in future I did, I would love to share it. There are few issues using sqoop which buged me initially but are easy to handle: Sqoop Connector: Issue: Use of incorrect connector for the Database to be connected while doing sqoop export or sqoop import. Missing driver or use of correct driver name of the respective jdbc class for sqoop command. Missing connection-manager name in some cases of sqoop command. Incorrect approach of giving password or username of the Database to be connected. Format of the data stored in HDFS/Hive Tables can create issues. There are few formats such as ORC files which wont allow direct data transfer using sqoop. Non-matching or incorrect names of columns of source and destination tables where HCatalog is used in sqoop command can show successful sqoop job without the data being transferred. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Sqoop: Apache Sqoop is designed to efficiently transfer enormous volumes of data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases. It helps to offload certain tasks, such as ETL processing, from an enterprise data warehouse to Hadoop, for efficient execution at a much lower cost. Sqoop also makes it easy to extract data from Hadoop and export it to external structured datastores. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sqoop solving and how is that benefiting you? I am using Sqoop to import data from external datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related Hadoop eco-systems like Hive and HBase. The best benefit is how easy it is to use and how fast it is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Vijay A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vijay A.") VA Vijay A. Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/23/2020 "Sqoop as a key tool in our ETL Pipeline" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sqoop? Best suited in our pipeline where we load/unload data from postgreSQL. Suited for out data format in AVRO. Under normal circumstances execution is fast and cost effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sqoop? When loading huge data it is becoming performance bottle neck for other apps working with same datastore. There is no pause & resume feature. We have to start job again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Sqoop: Getting skilled in sqoop is quite easy and fun. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sqoop solving and how is that benefiting you? In our ETL Pipeline we need to load data from PostgreSQL to HDFS and process the data and load it. It is very fast in execution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/27/2020 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![RAVI RANJAN K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "RAVI RANJAN K.") RK RAVI RANJAN K. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/27/2020 "Great tool for Big Data transfers/ migrations" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sqoop? It’s simple way to connect to any Database to pull or push data is the best part. It can be integrated with any of your scripts or programs for data transformation by simple use of SQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sqoop? Still there is scope of improvement to make it more robust for many NoSql based databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Sqoop: Give it a try, it’s helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sqoop solving and how is that benefiting you? Very much used for Big Data migration projects and where you want to leverage the power of Transact SQL by integrating with Vig Data project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Rahul A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rahul A.") RA Rahul A. Associate Manager Data Scientist Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/18/2020 "Excellent piece of technology for bulk data transfer." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sqoop? Seemless intergartion with relational databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sqoop? Not very effective with de-normalized data as we need to execute multiple joins in map reduce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Sqoop: If you need bulk and delta data transfer from relational databases to hadoop envioronment then Apache Sqoop is the best product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sqoop solving and how is that benefiting you? Problems with de-normalized data. Many benefits. It has seem less integration with on-prem relational servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Lakshmi Narayana J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Lakshmi Narayana J.") LJ Lakshmi Narayana J. Senior Hadoop Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/12/2021 "A better service to import sql data into hadoop" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sqoop? The command are very lightweight. And easily used to import data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sqoop? This service is a Simple tool with no flaws to notice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Sqoop: It is very suited service for importing sql databases into Hadoop data lakes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sqoop solving and how is that benefiting you? To import sql databases into Hadoop data lakes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about Apache Sqoop? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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