What's the difference between Flume and Sqoop?

Question

Both Flume and Sqoop are meant for data movement, then what is the difference between them? Under what condition should I use Flume or Sqoop?

Answer 1

From http://flume.apache.org/

Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data.

Flume helps to collect data from a variety of sources, like logs, jms, Directory etc.
Multiple flume agents can be configured to collect high volume of data.
It scales horizontally.

From http://sqoop.apache.org/

Apache Sqoop(TM) is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases.

Sqoop helps to move data between hadoop and other databases and it can transfer data in parallel for performance.