As we have seen here, Sqoop covers a substantial part of building a single customer view, as we discussed in Chapter 1, Introduction to Data. Sqoop covers one of the most prominent channels for data acquisition, i.e. data transfer from relational databases to the HDFS layer. Most business and partner apps fall into this category and amount to a majority of structured information.

Hence, from the perspective of building a single customer view:

As seen from the above, out of the entire single customer view, we still have various other types of information to be captured, which we will be covering in the chapters to follow.

From the perspective of single customer view, we discussed in this chapter various import and export mechanisms of data. As we start building a complete data lake for single customer view, we can visualize various architecture layers and components getting introduced.

From the Sqoop usage perspective, the layers being introduced here are data acquisition and can be visualized as shown: