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Apache Flume vs Sqoop: What are the differences?
What is Apache Flume? A service for collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. It is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. It has a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming data flows. It is robust and fault tolerant with tunable reliability mechanisms and many failover and recovery mechanisms. It uses a simple extensible data model that allows for online analytic application.
What is Sqoop? A tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores. It is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases of The Apache Software Foundation.
Apache Flume can be classified as a tool in the "Log Management" category, while Sqoop is grouped under "Database Tools".