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

Flume: A very common use case is collecting log data from one system- a bank of web servers(aggregating it in HDFS for later analysis).

Sqoop: On the other hand is designed for performing bulk imports of data into HDFS from structured data stores. simple use case will be an organization that runs a nightly sqoop import to load the day's data from a production DB into a Hive data ware house for analysis.

--From the definitive guide.