Sqoop CLI
Overview
This section includes the reference documentation for the Sqoop CLI shell. All Sqoop commands are invoked by the bin/sqoop script.
The Sqoop shell usage is as follows:
$ sqoop COMMAND [<GENERIC_OPTIONS>] [<SPECIFIC_OPTIONS>]where <GENERIC_OPTIONS> are preceeded by a single dash character (-).
<SPECIFIC_OPTIONS> start with two dashes (--), unless they are single character arguments.
Commands
Sqoop provides the following tools.
| Command | Description |
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Generates Java classes that encapsulate and interpret imported records |
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Populates a Hive metastore with a definition for a table based on a database table previously imported to HDFS, or one planned to be imported |
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Allows users to quickly run simple SQL queries against a database; results are printed to the console |
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Exports a set of files from HDFS back to an RDBMS |
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Lists tools available in Sqoop and explains their usage |
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Imports a set of tables from an RDBMS to HDFS |
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Imports all sequential datasets in a partitioned dataset (PDS) on a mainframe to HDFS |
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Imports an individual table from an RDBMS to HDFS |
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Allows users to create and work with saved jobs |
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Lists database schemas present on a server |
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Lists tables present in a database |
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Allows users to combine two datasets where entries in one dataset should overwrite entries of an older dataset |
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Configures Sqoop to host a shared metadata repository |
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Displays version information for Sqoop |