Apache Sqoop overview

Relational databases like MySQL are most popular when dealing with most of the business applications. As MySQL is open source, it is a default choice for many of the applications. Applications built using MySQL as database can belong to different domains, such as e-commerce, e-learning, medicine or health information sites, and social media applications, as mentioned in Chapter 1, Introduction to Big Data and MySQL 8. Each of these domains has the capacity to generate large number of data which has to be stored in MySQL. Some of this data is structured, like a user's registration information or a user's cart information, which can be maintained well by MySQL. On the other hand, some of the data is unstructured, like a user's last accessed page information, likes, shares, or tweets. This user's access information can be utilized very well to enhance user's experience while using application by analyzing user's behaviour or set up a recommendation engine based on the...