To configure Sqoop connectivity for relational databases, you must download JDBC driver .jar files.
Download any Type 4 JDBC driver that the database vendor recommends for Sqoop connectivity.
The DataDirect JDBC drivers that Informatica ships are not licensed for Sqoop connectivity.
To optimize the Sqoop mapping performance on the Spark engine while writing data to an HDFS complex file target of the Parquet format, download the following .jar files:
At run time, the Data Integration Service copies the .jar files to the Hadoop distribution cache so that the .jar files are accessible to all nodes in the cluster.