Ashutosh, I agree, I think we should be looking at deprecating and removing the HBaseHCatStorageHandler and trying to help people migrate any users (if any) to the Hive HBaseStorageHandler.
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Ashutosh Chauhan <[email protected]> wrote: > There are two ways currently to interact with HBase either via > HBaseStorageHandler or HCatHBaseStorageHandler. There is lot of overlap in > terms of vision of these two handlers. In terms of feature set, there is > also quite a bit of overlap. Having two implementations for a same vision > in same codebase is clearly less than ideal, especially after we have > merged in with Hive. So, I propose we should just remove > HCatHBaseStorageHandler and work towards consolidating the two. I have also > created a jira for it: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4331 > > Thoughts? > > Ashutosh
