SQOOP2 is the 2nd generation version of SQOOP. DO NOT USE this tag for SQOOP questions. Use the sqoop tag instead. SQOOP2 was designed to fix the tight coupling that SQOOP has with Hadoop. But as of Nov 2017 is no longer actively maintained.
From Upgrading Sqoop 2 from an Earlier CDH 5 Release
Note: Sqoop 2 is being deprecated. Cloudera recommends using Sqoop 1.
References
- SlideShare - May 2013 HUG: Apache Sqoop 2 - A next generation of data transfer tools
- SQOOP2 Design Proposal
- Documentation
- Issues
- What does Sqoop 2 provide that Sqoop 1 does not?