Have you checked out HBaseStorage? http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.9.1/api/org/apache/pig/backend/hadoop/hbase/HBaseStorage.html
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Mark Kerzner <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I need to initialize the HBase connection, which I normally do in > configure() in the Mapper, and then my mapper uses it. How do I do it in > Pig? > > I am ready to define a UDF that will return a handle, but is it a best > practice? > > Thank you, > Mark > -- *Note that I'm no longer using my Yahoo! email address. Please email me at [email protected] going forward.*
