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Gwen Shapira commented on SQOOP-1393: ------------------------------------- I think disordering the framework is not a big disadvantage - the current two-step design is more of historical accident than actual design and doesn't have any benefits to users. I support the efficient method of using kite to generate hive table. > Import data from database to Hive as Parquet files > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SQOOP-1393 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-1393 > Project: Sqoop > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: tools > Reporter: Qian Xu > Assignee: Richard > > Import data to Hive as Parquet file can be separated into two steps: > 1. Import an individual table from an RDBMS to HDFS as a set of Parquet files. > 2. Import the data into Hive by generating and executing a CREATE TABLE > statement to define the data's layout in Hive with Parquet format table -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)