@Sam Bass has this been resolved? Please accept best answer or provide your own solution. ... View more

@Kevin Minder Thanks, that worked just as I needed it to. ... View more

I haven't got a working solution yet. It may be worth looking at Apache Phoenix and using that through Knox. I'm no longer working on my PoC due to other commitments. I'll try and get back to finishing it but until then, I think the solution will existing in editing Knox's .class files to change it's behaviour when querying HBase. ... View more