Importing data directly from RDBMS to HIVE can solve lots of time. Also we can run a freeform query(a join or some simple query) and populate it in a table of our choice directly into Hive.
--hive-import tells Sqoop that the final destination is Hive and not HDFS.
--hive-table option helps in importing the data to the table in hive chosen by us, otherwise it will be named as the source table being imported from RDBMS.
$ sqoop import --connect jdbc:mysql://10.0.0.100/hadooptest
--username hadoopuser -P
--table table_name --hive-import --hive-table hive_table_name