SQOOP - The bridge between traditional and novel big data systems. By now,we have seen articles about MapReduce programs to write programs using Hadoop MapReduce framework.However, all the operations were actually performed on sample text files. Here comes Sqoop to our rescue.Apache Sqoop is a tool developed to fetch/put data from traditional SQL based data storage systems like MySQL,PostgreSQL,MS SQL Server.Sqoop can also be used to fetch/push data from NoSQL systems too.This versatility is because of Sqoop's architecture abstracted on MapReduce framework. Sqoop has an extension framework that makes it possible from and to any external storage system that has bulk data transfer capabilities.A Sqoop connector is a modular component that uses this framework to enable Sqoop imports and exports.Sqoop comes with connectors for working with a range of versatile popular databases including MySQL,PostgreSQL,Oracle,SQL Server,DB2 and Netezza.Apart from the above connectors Sqoop als...