Submitted to board@apache.org on April 9, 2014
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 1.99.3, released on November 6, 2013 from the sqoop2 branch. * Work is currently underway for the next release of Sqoop from the trunk, targeting version 1.4.5. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Dell Software is working on contributing a high performance Oracle connector to the project. This work is currently tracked via SQOOP-1287. * Development activity continues on both trunk as well as sqoop2 branches. * A total of 27 issues have been resolved between the period starting from January 2, 2014 to April 1, 2014. * In the past three months, a total of 222 messages were exchanged on the user list and a total of 369 messages were exchanged on the dev list. COMMUNITY * Last addition to committers was on Feb 5, 2014 when Mengwei Ding joined as a committer. * Last appointment to Sqoop PMC was done on September 22, 2012 with Kathleen Ting joining the PMC. * Currently there are: - Total of 348 subscribers to the user list - Total of 145 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 19 committers - Total of 13 PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.