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Supported Releases
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This documentation applies to Sqoop v{revnumber}.

Sqoop Releases
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Sqoop is an open source software product of the Apache Software Foundation.

Software development for Sqoop occurs at http://sqoop.apache.org
At that site you can obtain:

- New releases of Sqoop as well as its most recent source code
- An issue tracker
- A wiki that contains Sqoop documentation

Prerequisites
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The following prerequisite knowledge is required for this product:

- Basic computer technology and terminology
- Familiarity with command-line interfaces such as +bash+
- Relational database management systems
- Basic familiarity with the purpose and operation of Hadoop

Before you can use Sqoop, a release of Hadoop must be installed and
configured. Sqoop is currently supporting 4 major Hadoop releases - 0.20,
0.23, 1.0 and 2.0.

This document assumes you are using a Linux or Linux-like environment.
If you are using Windows, you may be able to use cygwin to accomplish
most of the following tasks. If you are using Mac OS X, you should see
few (if any) compatibility errors. Sqoop is predominantly operated and
tested on Linux.