"The idea behind Kundera is to make working with NoSQL Databases drop-dead simple and fun. Kundera is being developed with following objectives:
To make working with NoSQL as simple as working with SQL
To serve as JPA Compliant mapping solution for NoSQL Datastores.
To help developers, forget the complexity of NoSQL stores and focus on Domain Model.
To make switching across data-stores as easy as changing a configuration.
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Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases. Sqoop successfully graduated from the Incubator in March of 2012 and is now a Top-Level Apache project: More information The Apache Sqoop team is pleased to announce the release of Sqoop 1.4.1-incubating from the Apache Incubator, which is the second incubator release.