In this segment, you will learn about the Sqoop operator in Airflow.
We recommend that you follow along with the demonstrations in your own EC2 instance.
In the upcoming video, Ajay will introduce you to the Sqoop operator.
So, in the video, you learnt the theory related to the Sqoop operator in Airflow.
The SqoopOperator is usually used to transfer data between RDBMS and HDFS; essentially, you can perform any Sqoop using this operator.
Some of the important parameters/arguments for the SqoopOperator are listed below:
- conn_id: Connection ID
- table: MySQL table name
- cmd_type: Command type
- target_dir: Target directory for HDFS
Note:
The task_id and dag arguments have to be mentioned for all operators.
In the next video, we will start with the actual demonstration of the Sqoop operator.
You can find the code and other resources used in the demonstration attached below.
The document provided below details the steps followed in the demonstration
In the next segment, you will learn about the Hive operator in Airflow.
Additional Reading
You can visit the following link for the source code for the SqoopOperator: SqoopOperator.
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