Small correction to Ashwanth's post - Sqoop is now an Apache Incubator project residing at http://incubator.apache.org/sqoop with a community of its own.
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Ashwanth Kumar <ashwanthku...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hadoop is very good at processing data from HDFS. Tools like Sqoop (from > Cloudera) imports data from SQL databases to HDFS for processing. Everything > that is processed in Hadoop is only from HDFS. So if you can put anything in > a HDFS, you can process anything. > > - Ashwanth > > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:28 PM, neo21 zerro <neo21_ze...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> >> Hello, >> >> >> I'm really new to Hadoop and I was wondering if the MAP reduce >> programming model from Hadoop is a good choice only for processing large >> amount of data, from a file, database or a queue? Thanks! > > -- Harsh J Customer Ops. Engineer, Cloudera
