Mode

Select the mode in which Sqoop is called in a Job execution.

Use Commandline: the Sqoop shell is used to call Sqoop.
You can read data from either HDFS or HCatalog. In this mode, you have to deploy and run
the Job in the host where Sqoop is installed. Therefore, if you are a subscription-based
user, we recommend installing and using a Jobserver provided by
Talend
in that host to run the Job; if you are using one of the
Talend
solutions with Big Data, you have to ensure that the Studio and the Sqoop to
be used are in the same machine.

Use Java API: the Java API is used to call Sqoop. In
this mode, the Job can be run locally in the Studio but you need to configure the
connection to the Hadoop distribution to be used. Note that JDK is required to execute the
Job in the Java API mode and the versions of the JDK kits installed in both machines must
be compatible with each other; for example, the versions are the same or the JDK version of
the Hadoop machine is more recent.

Hadoop properties

Distribution

1. Select Import from existing
   version to import an officially supported distribution as base
   and then add other required jar files which the base distribution does not
   provide.

2. Select Import from zip to
   import the configuration zip for the custom distribution to be used. This zip
   file should contain the libraries of the different Hadoop elements and the index
   file of these libraries.

   In
   Talend
   
   Exchange, members of
   Talend
   community have shared some ready-for-use configuration zip files
   which you can download from this Hadoop configuration
   list and directly use them in your connection accordingly. However, because of
   the ongoing evolution of the different Hadoop-related projects, you might not be
   able to find the configuration zip corresponding to your distribution from this
   list; then it is recommended to use the Import from
   existing version option to take an existing distribution as base
   to add the jars required by your distribution.

   Note that custom versions are not officially supported by
   
   Talend
   .
   Talend
   and its community provide you with the opportunity to connect to
   custom versions from the Studio but cannot guarantee that the configuration of
   whichever version you choose will be easy, due to the wide range of different
   Hadoop distributions and versions that are available. As such, you should only
   attempt to set up such a connection if you have sufficient Hadoop experience to
   handle any issues on your own.

   Note:

   In this dialog box, the active check box must be kept
   selected so as to import the jar files pertinent to the connection to be
   created between the custom distribution and this component.

   For a step-by-step example about how to connect to a custom
   distribution and share this connection, see Hortonworks.

Hadoop Version

Select the version of the Hadoop distribution you are using. The available
options vary depending on the component you are using.

NameNode URI

Type in the URI of the Hadoop NameNode, the master node of a
Hadoop system. For example, we assume that you have chosen a machine called masternode as the NameNode, then the location is
hdfs://masternode:portnumber. If you are using WebHDFS, the location should be
webhdfs://masternode:portnumber; WebHDFS with SSL is not
supported yet.

JobTracker Host

Select this check box and in the displayed field, enter the location of the
ResourceManager of your distribution. For example, tal-qa114.talend.lan:8050.

This property is required when the query you want to use is executed in
Windows and it is a Select query. For example, SELECT your_column_name FROM your_table_name

For further information about the Hadoop Map/Reduce framework, see the
Map/Reduce tutorial in Apache’s Hadoop documentation on http://hadoop.apache.org.

Use kerberos authentication

In addition, since this component performs Map/Reduce computations, you
also need to authenticate the related services such as the Job history server and
the Resource manager or Jobtracker depending on your distribution in the
corresponding field. These principals can be found in the configuration files of
your distribution. For example, in a CDH4 distribution, the Resource manager
principal is set in the yarn-site.xml file and the Job history
principal in the mapred-site.xml file.

This check box is available depending on the Hadoop distribution you are
connecting to.

Select the Use a keytab to authenticate
check box to log into a Kerberos-enabled system using a given keytab file. A keytab
file contains pairs of Kerberos principals and encrypted keys. You need to enter the
principal to be used in the Principal field and
the access path to the keytab file itself in the Keytab field. This keytab file must be stored in the machine in
which your Job actually runs, for example, on a Talend Jobserver.

Note that the user that executes a keytab-enabled Job is not necessarily
the one a principal designates but must have the right to read the keytab file being
used. For example, the user name you are using to execute a Job is user1 and the principal to be used is guest; in this
situation, ensure that user1 has the right to read the keytab
file to be used.

Hadoop user name

Enter the user name under which you want to execute the Job. Since a file or a directory in
Hadoop has its specific owner with appropriate read or write rights, this field allows you
to execute the Job directly under the user name that has the appropriate rights to access
the file or directory to be processed. Note that this field is available depending on the
distribution you are using.

JDBC property

Connection

Enter the JDBC URL used to connect to the database where the source data is
stored.

User name and
Password

Enter the authentication information used to connect to the source database.

To enter the password, click the […] button next to the
password field, and then in the pop-up dialog box enter the password between double quotes
and click OK to save the settings.

Driver JAR

In either the Use Commandline mode or the
Java API mode, you must add the driver file of the
database to be used to the lib folder of the Hadoop distribution you
are using. For that purpose, use this Driver JAR table
to add that driver file for the current Job you are designing.

Driver class name

Enter the class name for the specified driver between double
quotation marks. For example, for the RedshiftJDBC41-1.1.13.1013.jar driver, the name to be entered is
com.amazon.redshift.jdbc41.Driver.

File format

Specify Number of Mappers

Select this check box to indicate the number of map tasks (parallel processes)
used to perform the data transfer.

If you do not want Sqoop to work in parallel, enter 1 in the
displayed field.

Compress

Select this check box to enable compression.

Direct

Select this check box to use the import fast path.

Exclude table

Select this check box and enter the name of the table(s) to be
excluded from the import process.

Print Log

Select this check box to activate the Verbose
check box.

Verbose

Select this check box to print more information while working, for example, the
debugging information.

Define Hive mapping

Sqoop provides default configuration that maps most SQL types to appropriate
Hive types. If you need to use your custom map to overwrite the default ones at runtime,
select this check box and define the map(s) you want to use in the table that appears.

Use MySQL default delimiters

Select this check box to use MySQL’s default delimiter set. This check box is
available only to the Commandline mode.

Additional arguments

Complete this table to use additional arguments if needs be.

By adding additional arguments, you are able to perform multiple operations in
one single transaction. For example, you can use --hive-import and --hive-table in the
Commandline mode or hive.import and hive.table.name in the Java API mode to create Hive table and write data in at
the runtime of the transaction writing data in HDFS. For further information about the
available Sqoop arguments in the Commandline mode and the Java API mode, respectively, see
Additional arguments.

Hadoop properties

Mapred job map memory mb and
Mapred job reduce memory
mb

You can tune the map and reduce computations by
selecting the Set memory check box to set proper memory allocations
for the computations to be performed by the Hadoop system.

In that situation, you need to enter the values you need in the Mapred
job map memory mb and the Mapred job reduce memory
mb fields, respectively. By default, the values are both 1000 which are normally appropriate for running the
computations.

The memory parameters to be set are Map (in Mb),
Reduce (in Mb) and ApplicationMaster (in Mb). These fields allow you to dynamically allocate
memory to the map and the reduce computations and the ApplicationMaster of YARN.

Path separator in server

Leave the default value of the Path separator in
server as it is, unless you have changed the separator used by your
Hadoop distribution’s host machine for its PATH variable or in other words, that
separator is not a colon (:). In that situation, you must change this value to the
one you are using in that host.

tStatCatcher Statistics

Select this check box to collect log data at the component
level.

Global Variables

ERROR_MESSAGE: the error message generated by the
component when an error occurs. This is an After variable and it returns a string. This
variable functions only if the Die on error check box is
cleared, if the component has this check box.

EXIT_CODE: the exit code of the remote command. This is
an After variable and it returns an integer.

A Flow variable functions during the execution of a component while an After variable
functions after the execution of the component.

To fill up a field or expression with a variable, press Ctrl +
Space to access the variable list and choose the variable to use from it.

For further information about variables, see
Talend Studio

User Guide.

Usage rule

This component is used standalone. It respects the Sqoop prerequisites. You need
necessary knowledge about Sqoop to use it.

We recommend using the Sqoop of version 1.4+ in order to benefit the full
functions of these components.

For further information about Sqoop, see the Sqoop manual on: http://sqoop.apache.org/docs/

Prerequisites

The Hadoop distribution must be properly installed, so as to guarantee the interaction
with
Talend Studio
. The following list presents MapR related information for
example.

• Ensure that you have installed the MapR client in the machine where the Studio is,
  and added the MapR client library to the PATH variable of that machine. According
  to MapR’s documentation, the library or libraries of a MapR client corresponding to
  each OS version can be found under MAPR_INSTALL
  hadoophadoop-VERSIONlib
  ative. For example, the library for
  Windows is lib
  ativeMapRClient.dll in the MapR
  client jar file. For further information, see the following link from MapR: http://www.mapr.com/blog/basic-notes-on-configuring-eclipse-as-a-hadoop-development-environment-for-mapr.

  Without adding the specified library or libraries, you may encounter the following
  error: no MapRClient in java.library.path.

• Set the -Djava.library.path argument, for example, in the Job Run VM arguments area
  of the Run/Debug view in the Preferences dialog box in the Window menu. This argument provides to the Studio the path to the
  native library of that MapR client. This allows the subscription-based users to make
  full use of the Data viewer to view locally in the
  Studio the data stored in MapR.

For further information about how to install a Hadoop distribution, see the manuals
corresponding to the Hadoop distribution you are using.

Limitation

If you have selected the Use Commandline
mode, you need to use the host where Sqoop is installed to run the Job using this
component.

The preconditions required by Sqoop for using its import-all-tables tool must be
satisfied. For further information, please see the manual of
Sqoop.

Connections

Outgoing links (from this component to another):

Trigger: Run if; On Subjob Ok; On
Subjob Error.

Incoming links (from one component to this one):

Row: Iterate;

Trigger: Run if; On Subjob Ok; On
Subjob Error; On Component Ok; On Component Error

For further information regarding connections, see


Talend Studio
User Guide.