When not to use Sqoop
Sqoop is the best suited tool when your data lives in database systems such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Teradata; Sqoop is not a best fit for event driven data handling. For event driven data, it's apt to go for Apache Flume (Chapter 7, Messaging Layer with Apache Kafka in this book covers Flume in detail) as against Sqoop. To summarize, below are the points when Sqoop should not be used:
- For event driven data.
- For handling and transferring data which are streamed from various business applications. For example data streamed using JMS from a source system.
- For handling real-time data as opposed to regular bulk/batch data and micro-batch.
- Handling data which is in the form of log files generated in different web servers where the business application is hosted.
- If the source data store should not be put under pressure when a Sqoop job is being executed, it's better to avoid Sqoop. Also, if the bulk/batch have high volumes of data, the pressure that it would put on...