Does Drill have any support for Avro stored in HBase columns? IOW, could I do something like this, substituting Avro for JSON?
select convert_from(row_key, 'UTF8') as row_key, convert_from(convert_from(t.cf1.data, 'UTF8'), 'JSON') as data from `ticks` t limit 1; I see some JIRAs around Avro, including DRILL-1512 which talks about the addition of an Avro RecordReader in 0.9, but I do not know what this actually means. Is it a short path between a RecordReader and the CONVERT_FROM function? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-1512
