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

Sqoop

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• Sqoop can perform import/export from RDBMS to HDFS/HIVE/HBASE
• sqoop only import/export structured data not unstructured or semi structured.

Flume

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• import stream data from multiple sources mostly semi-structured and unstructured in nature. Now Kafka is better alternative for flume.