History of Sqoop

Sqoop was initially developed and maintained by Cloudera, and later incubated as an Apache project on 23 July, 2011. In April 2012, the Sqoop project was promoted as Apache’s top-level project. Since then, all releases have been managed by Apache committee members. As of the writing of this book, 1.4.6 is the stable release for Sqoop, released on May 11, 2015.

Due to some inherent challenges in Sqoop 1 (version 1.x.x), fresh thought came in this regard and this brought Sqoop 2 into existence. In this book, we will be using Sqoop 1 instead of Sqoop 2. However, we will make sure that you are introduced, in more detail, both the versions of Sqoop so that you have a fair bit of knowledge and clearly know the distinction between the two versions and when to use what.