That's awesome, Harsh J, never saw an example of that in action.   I'm specifically looking for write support, though (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15336).   The other issue that benefits me greatly is the improved scan ability, as implemented in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14795.   Also, it would be nice to be able to make use of the new JSON format for defining the table catalog (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14801). ... View more

Cloudera's original work on hbase-spark (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-13992) is also targeted for HBase 2.0, but I'm grateful that it showed up in 5.7.0 already. Just wanted to ask for including the latest additions for Python users. If the original work on hbase-spark is included in CDH already, you might as well include the latest additions to it. (Of course I understand you'd want to wait until that JIRA closes.) ... View more