Modern Big Data Processing with Hadoop

Import a MySQL table into an HBase table

The following is a sample command to import data into an HBase table:

$sqoop import -connect jdbc:mysql://localhost/dbname -table <table_name>  --username <username> --password >password>  --hive-import -m 4                                    --hbase-create-table --hbase-table <table_name>--column-family <col family name>

Sqoop imports data into the HBase table column family. The data is converted and inserted as a UTF-8 bytes format.