we currently hand code imports into our relational database from each source system and it is very cumbersome. Examples of the source systems would be data source like salesforce, twitter, another database, file, sharepoint, etc. In our next line of software we would like to use a technology stack that has a lot of connectors already built to move the data from a source system into our target system of either Hadoop or mysql. Ideally, these connectors can be easily built and even scriptable. we do not want to reinvent the wheel and looking for some good open source tools to quickly import data into our target system from a large variety of sources. If this was your requirement, which technology stack would you use and why? It seems to be a common theme in a lot of products to build a generic way to consume data into your system with a lot of community support. Why reinvent the wheel over and over again? ... View more