Hi, I guess it is working fine.  Here is the output   Before Sqoop import After sqoop import Parquet files generated The command used and execution status    To include compression (Snappy):   --compression-codec org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.SnappyCodec     Also, looking at your issue, the name node is in safe mode.   Caused by: MetaException(message:Got exception: org.apache.hadoop.ipc. RemoteException Cannot create directory /user/hive/warehouse/categories. Name node is in safe mode.   Restart it with   sudo service hadoop-hdfs-namenode restart ... View more