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Vivek Mishra
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Vivek Mishra is an IT professional with more than nine years of experience in various technologies like Java, J2ee, Hibernate, SCA4J, Mule, Spring, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, REDIS, Hive, Hadoop. He has been a contributor for open source like Apache Cassandra and lead committer for Kundera(JPA 2.0 compliant Object-Datastore Mapping Library for NoSQL Datastores like Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB and REDIS). Mr Mishra in his previous experience has enjoyed long lasting partnership with most recognizable names in SCM, Banking and finance industries, employing industry standard full software life cycle methodologies Agile and SCRUM. He is currently employed with Impetus infotech pvt. ltd. He has undertaken speaking engagements in cloud camp and Nasscom Big data seminar and is an active blogger and can be followed at mevivs.wordpress.com
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Tomcy John lives in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), hailing from Kerala (India), and is an enterprise Java specialist with a degree in Engineering (B Tech) and over 14 years of experience in several industries. He's currently working as principal architect at Emirates Group IT, in their core architecture team. Prior to this, he worked with Oracle Corporation and Ernst & Young. His main specialization is in building enterprise-grade applications and he acts as chief mentor and evangelist to facilitate incorporating new technologies as corporate standards in the organization. Outside of his work, Tomcy works very closely with young developers and engineers as mentors and speaks at various forums as a technical evangelist on many topics ranging from web and middleware all the way to various persistence stores.
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Pankaj Misra has been a technology evangelist, holding a bachelor's degree in engineering, with over 16 years of experience across multiple business domains and technologies. He has been working with Emirates Group IT since 2015, and has worked with various other organizations in the past. He specializes in architecting and building multi-stack solutions and implementations. He has also been a speaker at technology forums in India and has built products with scale-out architecture that support high-volume, near-real-time data processing and near-real-time analytics.
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When not to use Sqoop


Sqoop is the best suited tool when your data lives in database systems such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Teradata; Sqoop is not a best fit for event driven data handling. For event driven data, it's apt to go for Apache Flume (Chapter 7Messaging Layer with Apache Kafka in this book covers Flume in detail) as against Sqoop. To summarize, below are the points when Sqoop should not be used:

  • For event driven data.
  • For handling and transferring data which are streamed from various business applications. For example data streamed using JMS from a source system.
  • For handling real-time data as opposed to regular bulk/batch data and micro-batch.
  • Handling data which is in the form of log files generated in different web servers where the business application is hosted.
  • If the source data store should not be put under pressure when a Sqoop job is being executed, it's better to avoid Sqoop. Also, if the bulk/batch have high volumes of data, the pressure that it would put on...
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Vivek Mishra

Vivek Mishra is an IT professional with more than nine years of experience in various technologies like Java, J2ee, Hibernate, SCA4J, Mule, Spring, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, REDIS, Hive, Hadoop. He has been a contributor for open source like Apache Cassandra and lead committer for Kundera(JPA 2.0 compliant Object-Datastore Mapping Library for NoSQL Datastores like Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB and REDIS). Mr Mishra in his previous experience has enjoyed long lasting partnership with most recognizable names in SCM, Banking and finance industries, employing industry standard full software life cycle methodologies Agile and SCRUM. He is currently employed with Impetus infotech pvt. ltd. He has undertaken speaking engagements in cloud camp and Nasscom Big data seminar and is an active blogger and can be followed at mevivs.wordpress.com
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Tomcy John

Tomcy John lives in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), hailing from Kerala (India), and is an enterprise Java specialist with a degree in Engineering (B Tech) and over 14 years of experience in several industries. He's currently working as principal architect at Emirates Group IT, in their core architecture team. Prior to this, he worked with Oracle Corporation and Ernst & Young. His main specialization is in building enterprise-grade applications and he acts as chief mentor and evangelist to facilitate incorporating new technologies as corporate standards in the organization. Outside of his work, Tomcy works very closely with young developers and engineers as mentors and speaks at various forums as a technical evangelist on many topics ranging from web and middleware all the way to various persistence stores.
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Pankaj Misra

Pankaj Misra has been a technology evangelist, holding a bachelor's degree in engineering, with over 16 years of experience across multiple business domains and technologies. He has been working with Emirates Group IT since 2015, and has worked with various other organizations in the past. He specializes in architecting and building multi-stack solutions and implementations. He has also been a speaker at technology forums in India and has built products with scale-out architecture that support high-volume, near-real-time data processing and near-real-time analytics.
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