Hello :) I've played around with Sqoop 1 a fair while ago (possibly before Apache incubation) around the time of CDH3u3. There were a few minor kinks at the time but overall it seemed to be already pretty good and stable at the time, so I'm assuming Sqoop 1.4.2 can only be a lot better.
I didn't end up needing Sqopp for my use cases after I experimented with it at the time, but I'm now revisiting it and I just found out Sqoop 2 is in the works. I'm now using CDH 4.1.2 and I'm planning to upgrade to the latest (CDH 4.2) soon, which includes the first release of Sqoop 2 (1.99.1). I've read the architecture design articles and I think we could benefit from some of the new capabilities. I've also scoured the last few months of the (user) mailing list archive but haven't found much discussion regarding Sqoop 2, besides the announcement<http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/sqoop-user/201212.mbox/%3C20121226063212.GB28520%40jarcec-thinkpad%3E>and a post saying the Web UI isn't included<http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/sqoop-user/201211.mbox/%3C20121128161809.GE6589%40jarcec-thinkpad%3E> . I don't mind not having the Web UI yet, but I want to automate a couple of Sqoop-based ETL scripts, and if there are any differences between the way Sqoop 1 and 2 scripts are specified or used, then I'd like to start doing them the version 2 way, so that my infrastructure is more future proof. This, of course, is assuming the non-web UI capabilities of Sqoop 2 are mature enough for general usage. Can anyone comment on Sqoop 2's maturity? Should I subscribe to the dev mailing list instead if I'm interested in Sqoop 2, or is the user list the right place for general (non-dev) related Sqoop 2 questions? Thanks a lot guys (and gals?!) !! -- Felix
