What does Sqoop 2 provide that Sqoop 1 does not?

Question

According to sqoop.apache.org, Sqoop 2 is not feature complete and should not be used for production systems. Fair enough, some people may want to test out Sqoop 2's new features on their test environments.

Cloudera has a feature comparison between Sqoop 1 and Sqoop 2 (https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/5-8-x/topics/cdh_ig_sqoop_vs_sqoop2.html), but according to the page there is nothing that Sqoop 2 provides that Sqoop 1 does not also provide.

So why would anyone use Sqoop 2 in its current form? Does it provide any advantages over Sqoop 1? If not, why is it available for use? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Just as a quick note :

According to Cloudera (as of Nov 2017)

Note: Sqoop 2 is being deprecated. Cloudera recommends using Sqoop 1.