HQL future?

[Rick Hangartner]

Hi,

I apologize if this has been asked and answered, but the hadoop  
project website seems to not be responding right now, so I can't  
search the mail archive.  A quick search of the emails I've received  
from the HBase user's group since joining doesn't turn up anything  
relevant either.

I've read somewhere HQL has been deprecated.   The wiki link "HQL plan  
for HBase 0.2" goes to a boilerplate page indicating this page has not  
been created.

Is HQL and/or the HQL command-line shell going the way of the carrier  
pigeon in HBase 0.2 and beyond?

We like to use the HQL command-line shell as a sanity check tool on  
networking when we set up a remote client to an HBase server.  We  
don't need any enhancements, just would hate to lose this convenient  
tool.

Thanks,
Rick