Question - What are the differences between Sqoop and Flume?
Answer -
The following are thevarious differences between Sqoop and Flume:
| Sqoop | Flume |
| It works with NoSQL databases and RDBMS for importing and exporting data. | It works with streaming data, which is regularly generated in the Hadoop environment. |
| In Sqoop, loading data is not event-driven. | In Flume, loading data is event-driven. |
| It deals with data sources that are structured, and Sqoop connectors help in extracting data from them. | It extracts streaming data from application or web servers. |
| It takes data from RDBMS, imports it to HDFS, and exports it back to RDBMS. | Data from multiple sources flows into HDFS. |