Yes, you heard it correctly.
Apache Sqoop is one of the tool used for loading data from Oracle DB to HDFS. But, Sqoop is not just limited to just Oracle DB, you can use it to import and export data to & from most of the relational databases.
Let me tell you first about Sqoop.
Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and external data stores such as relational databases, enterprise data warehouses.
Sqoop is used to import data from external datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related Hadoop eco-systems like Hive and HBase. Similarly, Sqoop can also be used to extract data from Hadoop or its eco-systems and export it to external datastores such as relational databases, enterprise data warehouses. Sqoop works with relational databases such as Teradata, Netezza, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres etc.
You can refer the link: https://www.edureka.co/blog/hdfs-using-sqoop/
Follow the steps as mentioned in the blog and you will get to know how Sqoop is used to transfer data from Oracle DB to HDFS.
I hope this will answer your question to some extent.
