I have a need within a larger Pig script to pull just a few records from an Hbase table. I know the exact key, so it'd be trivial with a get() from a UDF. Another alternative is use to a custom LOAD/FILTER combo, but this would involve filtering off all but 3 of about 50 records.
>From a performance angle, punting over to the UDF is faster, right? Although it seems to break the model of only using UDFs when necessary... How are others handling this situation? Norbert
