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Sqoop 5 Minutes Demo

This page will walk you through basic usage of Sqoop. You need to have installed and configured Sqoop server and client in order to follow this guide. Installation procedure is described on Installation page. Please note that precise output shown in this page might differ from your as Sqoop develops. All major information should however remain the same.

Sqoop is using numerical identifiers to identify various meta data structures (connectors, connections, jobs). Each meta data structures have it’s own pool of identifiers and thus it’s perfectly valid when Sqoop have connector with id 1, connection with id 1 and job with id 1 at the same time.

Starting Client

Start client in interactive mode using following command:

./bin/sqoop.sh client

Configure client to use your Sqoop server:

sqoop:000> set server --host your.host.com --port 8080 --webapp sqoop

Verify that connection is working by simple version checking:

sqoop:000> show version --all
Server version:
  Sqoop 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT revision Unknown
  Compiled by jarcec on Wed Nov 21 16:15:51 PST 2012
Client version:
  Sqoop 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT revision Unknown
  Compiled by jarcec on Wed Nov 21 16:15:51 PST 2012
Protocol version:
  [1]

You should received similar output as shown describing versions of both your client and remote server as well as negotiated protocol version.

Creating Connection Object

Check what connectors are available on your Sqoop server:

sqoop:000> show connector --all
1 connector(s) to show:
Connector with id 1:
  Name: generic-jdbc-connector
  Class: org.apache.sqoop.connector.jdbc.GenericJdbcConnector
  Supported job types: [EXPORT, IMPORT]
...

Our example contains one connector called generic-jdbc-connector. This is basic connector that is relying on Java JDBC interface for doing data transfers. It should work on most common databases that are providing JDBC drivers. Please note that you must install JDBC drivers separately. They are not bundled in Sqoop due to incompatible licenses.

Generic JDBC Connector have in our example id 1 and we will use this value to create new connection object for this connector:

sqoop:000> create connection --cid 1
Creating connection for connector with id 1
Please fill following values to create new connection object
Name: First connection

Configuration configuration
JDBC Driver Class: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
JDBC Connection String: jdbc:mysql://mysql.server/database
Username: sqoop
Password: *****
JDBC Connection Properties:
There are currently 0 values in the map:
entry#

Security related configuration options
Max connections: 0
New connection was successfully created with validation status FINE and persistent id 1

Our new connection object was created with assigned id 1.

Creating Job Object

Job objects have multiple types and each connector might not support all of them. Generic JDBC Connector supports job types import (importing data to Hadoop ecosystem) and export (exporting data from Hadoop ecosystem). List of supported job types for each connector might be seen in the output of show connector command:

sqoop:000> show connector --all
...
  Name: generic-jdbc-connector
...
  Supported job types: [EXPORT, IMPORT]
...

Create import job for Connection object created in previous section:

sqoop:000> create job --xid 1 --type import
Creating job for connection with id 1
Please fill following values to create new job object
Name: First job

Database configuration
Table name: users
Table SQL statement:
Table column names:
Partition column name:
Boundary query:

Output configuration
Storage type:
  0 : HDFS
Choose: 0
Output directory: /user/jarcec/users
New job was successfully created with validation status FINE and persistent id 1

Our new job object was created with assigned id 1.

Moving Data

When all meta data objects are in place we can start moving data around. You can submit Hadoop job using submission start command:

sqoop:000> submission start --jid 1
Submission details
Job id: 1
Status: BOOTING
Creation date: 2012-20-23 13:20:34 PST
Last update date: 2012-20-23 13:20:34 PST
External Id: job_1353136146286_0004
        http://hadoop.cluster.com:8088/proxy/application_1353136146286_0004/
Progress: Progress is not available

You can iteratively check your running job status with submission status command:

sqoop:000> submission status --jid 1
Submission details
Job id: 1
Status: RUNNING
Creation date: 2012-21-23 13:21:45 PST
Last update date: 2012-21-23 13:21:56 PST
External Id: job_1353136146286_0005
        http://hadoop.cluster.com:8088/proxy/application_1353136146286_0004/
Progress: 0.00 %

And finally you can stop running job at any time using submission stop command:

sqoop:000> submission stop --jid 1
Submission details
Job id: 1
Status: FAILED
Creation date: 2012-22-23 13:22:39 PST
Last update date: 2012-22-23 13:22:42 PST
External Id: job_1353136146286_0006
        http://hadoop.cluster.com:8088/proxy/application_1353136146286_0004/

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