= Welcome to Sqoop! This is the Sqoop (SQL-to-Hadoop) tool. Sqoop allows easy imports and exports of data sets between databases and HDFS. == More Documentation Sqoop ships with additional documentation: a user guide and a manual page. Asciidoc sources for both of these are in +src/docs/+. Run +ant docs+ to build the documentation. It will be created in +build/docs/+. If you got Sqoop in release form, documentation will already be built and available in the +docs/+ directory. == Compiling Sqoop Compiling Sqoop requires the following tools: * Apache ant (1.7.1) * Java JDK 1.6 Additionally, building the documentation requires these tools: * asciidoc * make * python 2.5+ * xmlto * tar * gzip To compile Sqoop, run +ant package+. There will be a fully self-hosted build provided in the +build/sqoop-(version)/+ directory. You can build just the jar by running +ant jar+. See the COMPILING.txt document for for information. == This is also an Asciidoc file! * Try running +asciidoc README.txt+ * For more information about asciidoc, see http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/