Submitted to board@apache.org on June 8, 2012
DESCRIPTION Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases. It can be used to import data from external structured datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related systems like Hive and HBase. Conversely, Sqoop can be used to extract data from Hadoop and export it to external structured datastores such as relational databases and enterprise data warehouses. RELEASES * The last release of Apache Sqoop was version 1.4.1-incubating, released on February 16, 2012 while in Incubation. * No new releases are planned currently for the project. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report: http://s.apache.org/rB * Weekly conference calls are being hosted to facilitate discussion about the development work for Sqoop 2. COMMUNITY * The composition of the committers and PMC members has not changed since the last report. * Currently there are: - Total of 69 subscribers to the developer list. - Total of 130 subscribers to the user list. - Total of 14 committers - Total of 12 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.