Apache Sqoop(TM) is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases. Sqoop successfully graduated from the Incubator in March of 2012 and is now a Top-Level Apache project: More information Latest stable release is 1.4.7 (download, documentation). Latest cut of Sqoop2 is 1.99.7 (download, documentation). Note that