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Vijay A.
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Vijay A.
Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Originally submitted 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 our 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 bottleneck 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.

RAVI RANJAN K.
RK
RAVI RANJAN K.
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"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.

Rahul A.
RA
Rahul A.
Associate Manager Data Scientist
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Excellent piece of technology for bulk data transfer."
4.5/5
What do you like best about Apache Sqoop?

Seamless integration 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.

Lakshmi Narayana J.
LJ
Lakshmi Narayana J.
Senior Hadoop Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"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.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Data transfer between RDBMS and Hadoop"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Apache Sqoop?

It provides an ease to transfer data between RDBMS and Hadoop. It's simply a command line tool. Does a good job in data migration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Sqoop?

Sqoop is simply based on command line, it would have been better if presented in a good UI format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lakshmi Lavanya V.
LV
Lakshmi Lavanya V.
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Excellent tool to transfer data"
5/5
What do you like best about Apache Sqoop?

Incremental exports and incremental imports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Sqoop?

Nothing as such, I found the tool very useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SAFINA R.
SR
SAFINA R.
Big Data Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Widely used for fetching data from relation databases outside hadoop"
4/5
What do you like best about Apache Sqoop?

Sqoop makes data fetch from other databases outside hadoop so easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Sqoop?

It is less performant. And violates data policy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
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Verified User in Retail
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Apache SQOOP For RDBMS"
4/5
What do you like best about Apache Sqoop?

We can connect easily with RSBMA Source systems to migrate data to On premise environment or cloud environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Sqoop?

If Sqoop will come up with other than RDBMS Then that will be better what I thought Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Namrata P.
NP
Namrata P.
Lead Full Stack Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Very simple and best application for transferring data"
4/5
What do you like best about Apache Sqoop?

Transferring data between relational database and Hadoop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Sqoop?

Swoop doesn't support file types like orc,rc which I don't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
CR
Verified User in Retail
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"It’s good to import data from rdbms to hdfs"
4/5
What do you like best about Apache Sqoop?

Import data from rdbms and dump it into hdfs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Sqoop?

Taking too much time when data was huge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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