Depending on what you really need you can explore Apache Phoenix or HP trafodion (open sourced recently by HP labs)
Amit Sent from my mobile device, please excuse the typos > On Jul 8, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Ted Yu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Forwarding to hbase user mailing list. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: John Lilley <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:05 AM > Subject: HBase metadata > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > Greetings! > > > > We would like to support HBase in a general manner, having our software > connect to any HBase table and read/write it in a row-oriented fashion. > However, as we explore HBase, the raw interface is at a very low level -- > basically a map from binary record keys to named columns. So my question > about metadata standards. What do users mostly do to use HBase for > row-oriented access? It is always going through Hive? > > > > Thanks > > john
