Hi Hbase Users, I have seen API's supporting HFile direct reads and write. I Do understand it would create Hfiles in the location specified and it should be much faster since we would skip all the look ups to ZK. catalog table . RS , but can anyone point me to a particular case when we would like to read/write directly .
1. Since the data we might need would be distributed across regions how would direct reading of Hfile be helpful. 2. Any use-case for direct writes of Hfiles. If we write Hfiles will that data be accessible to the hbase shell. Regards, Samar
