[jira] [Issue Comment Deleted] (SQOOP-1390) Import data to HDFS as a set of Parquet files

["Qian Xu (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-1390?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Qian Xu updated SQOOP-1390:
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    Comment: was deleted

(was: [~gwenshap] Yes. We merge two as one now. Please close SQOOP-1389.)

> Import data to HDFS as a set of Parquet files
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>
>                 Key: SQOOP-1390
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-1390
>             Project: Sqoop
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: tools
>            Reporter: Qian Xu
>            Assignee: Qian Xu
>             Fix For: 1.4.6
>
>         Attachments: SQOOP-1390.patch
>
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> Parquet files keep data in contiguous chunks by column, appending new records to a dataset requires rewriting substantial portions of existing a file or buffering records to create a new file. 
> The JIRA proposes to add the possibility to import an individual table from a RDBMS into HDFS as a set of Parquet files. We will also provide a command-line interface with a new argument {{--as-parquetfile}} 
> Example invocation: 
> {{sqoop import --connect JDBC_URI --table TABLE --as-parquetfile --target-dir /path/to/files}}
> The major items are listed as follows:
> * Implement ParquetImportMapper
> * Hook up the ParquetOutputFormat and ParquetImportMapper in the import job.
> * Be able to support import from scratch or in append mode
> Note that as Parquet is a columnar storage format, it doesn't make sense to write to it directly from record-based tools. So we'd consider to use Kite SDK to simplify the handling of Parquet specific things.



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