Hi all, I was looking at the current Pig code in SVN, and it seems like HBase is supported for loading, but not for storing. If this is the case, I'd like to add support for writing to HBase to Pig. Is there anyone else working on this, and if not is this something that you'd like contributed? Based on a cursory evaluation of the StoreFunc interface, it looks like the APIs there are pretty file-centric and may need to be modified to accomodate HBase's table-based design. For example, you aren't going to be serializing your output to an OutputStream object in all likelihood.
I haven't contributed to Pig before, and I wanted to see if this is something that would be beneficial to the rest of the Pig community, and if so what next steps I should take (like starting a JIRA) to get the ball rolling. Thanks Best regards, Mike
