Re: HBase Types: Explicit Null Support

2013-04-04 Thread Nick Dimiduk
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Dmitriy Ryaboy wrote: > Hiya Nick, > Pig converts data for HBase storage using this class: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pig/trunk/src/org/apache/pig/backend/hadoop/hbase/HBaseBinaryConverter.java(which > is mostly just calling into HBase's Bytes class). As

Re: HBase Types: Explicit Null Support

2013-04-03 Thread Dmitriy Ryaboy
Hiya Nick, Pig converts data for HBase storage using this class: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pig/trunk/src/org/apache/pig/backend/hadoop/hbase/HBaseBinaryConverter.java(which is mostly just calling into HBase's Bytes class). As long as Bytes handles the null stuff, we'll just inherit the behav

Re: HBase Types: Explicit Null Support

2013-04-02 Thread Nick Dimiduk
I agree that a user-extensible interface is a required feature here. Personally, I'd love to ship a set of standard GIS tools on HBase. Let's keep in mind, though, that SQL and user applications are not the only consumers of this interface. A big motivation is allowing interop with the other higher