Hi Kudu team, We use Kudu with Impala, and usually update Kudu through the Java api. We store some binary HLL intermediates in Kudu, but must use String type since Impala does not have a Binary type. Kudu's java client forces UTF-8 encoding and we have a C++ UDAF in Impala that must decode Kudu's UTF-8 on every value.
It looks like UTF-8 is not enforced in Kudu's C++ client, so I'm wondering why we could not have control over the String encoding in Java as well? As-is it looks like we'd have to fork the java code to add this support. Or is there another way? -Cliff
