How does --hive import work

[#1]

Whenever I use --hive-import argument, I specify a --warehouse-dir as well in my sqoop jobs.

Now, I check my hive tables and data is indeed there but my question is why do I not see any files in warehouse dir using hadoop fs -ls command ?

Sure I do see them when I replace -hive-import and --warehouse-dir with --target-dir .

How does it work? What are the advantages of one over the other?

[#2]

@Simran Kaur

If you have a Hive metastore associated with your HDFS cluster, --hive-import and -hive-overwrite always writes to Hive warehouse directory. Arguments like --warehouse-dir <dir>, --as-avrodatafile, --as-sequencefile, --target-dir etc. are not honoured.

Thanks and Regards,

Sindhu