Thanks Ray! A number of people are interested in this; I will send out a breakdown of the work required, as well as some pointers for getting started on it.
JVS On Jul 1, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Ray Duong wrote: Thanks John, Can you provide me with some pointers?. My team can try to work on it. Our workaround right now is to call the Thrift API from within Hive using a UDF. Thanks, -ray On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:19 PM, John Sichi <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Jul 1, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Ray Duong wrote: > Is there away to do a hbase key lookup using the Hive-Hbase integration > without doing a full scan? > > Since I'm specifying the key='foo' in the where condition, shouldn't it be a > fast lookup? Hi Ray, Pushing down filters to HBase is one of our roadmap items. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1226 If you'd like to work on it, let me know and I'll give you some pointers. JVS
