Submitted to board@apache.org on July 9, 2013
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 1.99.2, released on April 24, 2013 from the sqoop2 branch. * Work has started towards the next release version 1.4.4, to be released from the trunk. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues with most work focused on the sqoop2 branch as well as on trunk. * A total of 114 issues have been resolved between the period starting from April 17, 2013 to July 10, 2013. * In the past three months, a total of 268 messages were exchanged on the user list and a total of 1625 messages were exchange don the dev list. COMMUNITY * Hari Shreedharan joined as a committer on June 20, 2013. He is affiliated to Cloudera. * Venkat Ranganathan joined as a committer on June 20, 2013. He is affiliated to Hortonworks. * No new additions were made to the Sqoop PMC. Last appointment was done on September 22, 2012 with Kathleen Ting joining the PMC. * A Sqoop meetup was organized in San Jose on June 26, 2013 around the venue of Hadoop Summit. * Currently there are: - Total of 246 subscribers to the user list - Total of 106 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 18 committers - Total of 13 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.