Submitted to board@apache.org on July 9, 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/5pU * Weekly conference calls are being hosted to facilitate discussion about the development work for Sqoop 2. These calls are announced in advance on the dev list; are open for anyone to participate provided they RSVP on time; no decisions are made in these calls; all items discussed in these calls are brought back to the dev list, wiki and Jira as necessary; the call minutes are recorded and made available at: http://s.apache.org/SJf. COMMUNITY * PMC Composition has changed due to one PMC member changing affiliation from AVG Technologies to Cloudera. The current affiliations in the PMC stand at Cloudera (7), JPL (1), Quest (2), Talend (1), WibiData (1). * A Sqoop User meetup was organized on June 13, 2012 in San Jose, and was attended by 13 participants. * Currently there are: - Total of 71 subscribers to the developer list - Total of 134 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.