Submitted to board@apache.org on October 7, 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 1.4.4, released on July 31, 2013 from the trunk. * Work has started towards the next release version 1.99.3, to be released from the sqoop2 branch. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development activity continues on both trunk as well as sqoop2 branches. * A total of 49 issues have been resolved between the period starting from July 17, 2013 to October 8, 2013. * In the past three months, a total of 406 messages were exchanged on the user list and a total of 1363 messages were exchanged on the dev list. COMMUNITY * Last addition to committers was on June 20, 2013 when Hari Shreedharan and Venkat Ranganathan joined as committers. * Last appointment to Sqoop PMC was done on September 22, 2012 with Kathleen Ting joining the PMC. * A Sqoop meetup is being planned around the venue of Strata Hadoop World 2013 conference in New York on October 28, 2013. * Currently there are: - Total of 293 subscribers to the user list - Total of 124 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.