Apache Sqoop Commands and Code to move data from relational DBs into HDFS, Hive, HBase and similar Hadoop services. MySQL - Connect to MySQL and list all available tables sqoop list-tables --connect jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/database --username root --password pw sqoop import --connect jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/database --username root --table mysql_table --hive-import --create-hive-table --hive-table hive_database.hive_table References: