As long as all data nodes can reach your database, Sqoop will work. Difference in performance depends on: * Bandwidth for the connection on each IP * Whether there are other applications sharing the bandwidth.
Chat with your network admin to find out. Gwen On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Jagat Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I was under impression sqoop needs data nodes to have external IP address > for data transfer. > > We are using Sqoop 1.4.5 > > Today I tried the job in cluster which has all internal ip for datanodes and > it worked. > > So I have question to clarify if I am correct about working of sqoop. > > For each map there is direct connection between datanode and the database. > > Does it hurt anyway the performance to have external or internal IP for > datanodes. > > Thanks,
