[HIVE-6147] Support avro data stored in HBase columns

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.12.0, 0.13.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: HBase Handler
• Labels: TODOC14
• Assignee: Swarnim Kulkarni
• Reporter: Swarnim Kulkarni
• Created: 06/Jan/14 19:11
• Updated: 13/Nov/14 19:42
• Resolved: 09/Sep/14 16:18

Description

Presently, the HBase Hive integration supports querying only primitive data types in columns. It would be nice to be able to store and query Avro objects in HBase columns by making them visible as structs to Hive. This will allow Hive to perform ad hoc analysis of HBase data which can be deeply structured.