If you are reading this then you have just downloaded the Couchbase Sqoop plugin. This plugin allows you to connect to Couchbase server 2.0+ or Membase Server 1.7.1+ and stream keys into HDFS or Hive for processing with Hadoop. Note that in this document we will refer to our database as Couchbase, but if you are using Membase everything will still work correctly. If you have used Sqoop before for doing imports and exports from other databases then using this plugin should be straightforward since it uses a similar command line argument structure.