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1. Datatype support: we discussed the datatype support for Sqoop2. Among the points raised were the following:
- Sqoop 1 datatypes are different for Java, Hive and Avro. Most of the time the connector does the datatype mapping.
- For Sqoop ,2 we would like to standardize on the datatype support so that all connectors can conform for consistency.
- Some datatypes discussed today were:
- String, char: UTF 8 encoded
- Timestamp: Unix time representation to millisecond level
- Binary: byte array
- Numeric: byte, short, int, long, float, double, byte
- Null type
2. Intermediate data format
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