[HIVE-11389] hbase import should allow partial imports and should work in parallel

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: hbase-metastore-branch
• Fix Version/s: hbase-metastore-branch, 2.0.0
• Component/s: HBase Metastore
• Assignee: Alan Gates
• Reporter: Alan Gates
• Created: 28/Jul/15 16:49
• Updated: 18/Feb/16 04:19
• Resolved: 31/Jul/15 18:08

Description

Currently the hbaseimport tool always imports a whole metastore serially. This has a couple of issues. One, users may wish to import only certain parts of their metastore. Two, when there are tables with many partitions it can take a long time.

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-9752 Documentation for HBase metastore