Could you manage an HBase deployment without the HBase shell? Suppose, hypothetically, that there was a reason (*cough* lawyers *cough*) that you couldn’t use JRuby and, hence, the HBase shell. I think the shell is pretty handy although I’m not sure it is essential, but I wonder what others think?
Worst case, all that functionality could be replaced with moderately tedious Java code, I suppose. Thanks. joe
