<s>
Sqoop	B-Language
is	O
a	O
command-line	B-Application
interface	I-Application
application	O
for	O
transferring	O
data	O
between	O
relational	B-Application
databases	I-Application
and	O
Hadoop	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Apache	B-Language
Sqoop	I-Language
project	O
was	O
retired	O
in	O
June	O
2021	O
and	O
moved	O
to	O
the	O
Apache	O
Attic	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Sqoop	B-Language
supports	O
incremental	O
loads	O
of	O
a	O
single	O
table	O
or	O
a	O
free	O
form	O
SQL	B-Language
query	I-Language
as	O
well	O
as	O
saved	O
jobs	O
which	O
can	O
be	O
run	O
multiple	O
times	O
to	O
import	O
updates	O
made	O
to	O
a	O
database	O
since	O
the	O
last	O
import	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Imports	O
can	O
also	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
populate	O
tables	O
in	O
Hive	B-General_Concept
or	O
HBase	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Exports	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
put	O
data	O
from	O
Hadoop	B-Application
into	O
a	O
relational	B-Application
database	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Sqoop	B-Language
got	O
the	O
name	O
from	O
"	O
SQL-to-Hadoop	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Sqoop	B-Language
became	O
a	O
top-level	O
Apache	O
project	O
in	O
March	O
2012	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Informatica	O
provides	O
a	O
Sqoop-based	O
connector	B-Application
from	O
version	O
10.1	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Pentaho	B-Application
provides	O
open-source	B-Application
Sqoop	B-Language
based	O
connector	B-Application
steps	O
,	O
Sqoop	B-Language
Import	O
and	O
Sqoop	B-Language
Export	O
,	O
in	O
their	O
ETL	O
suite	O
Pentaho	B-Application
Data	I-Application
Integration	I-Application
since	O
version	O
4.5	O
of	O
the	O
software	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microsoft	O
uses	O
a	O
Sqoop-based	O
connector	B-Application
to	O
help	O
transfer	O
data	O
from	O
Microsoft	B-Application
SQL	I-Application
Server	I-Application
databases	O
to	O
Hadoop	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Couchbase	B-General_Concept
,	I-General_Concept
Inc	I-General_Concept
.	I-General_Concept
also	O
provides	O
a	O
Couchbase	O
Server-Hadoop	O
connector	B-Application
by	O
means	O
of	O
Sqoop	B-Language
.	O
</s>
