Amazon EMR doesn't have Sqoop installed. It is possible to run Sqoop with Amazon EMR. The following blog shows how to install and run Sqoop: http://blog.kylemulka.com/2012/04/how-to-install-sqoop-on-amazon-elastic-map-reduce-emr/ However, the solution isn't perfect since the input files are usually in S3 and Sqoop doesn't support S3 directly. Here is my script to install sqoop and export data f