Hi there! After I started studying HBase, I've searched for open source projects backed by HBase and I found Titan distributed graph database (you probably heard about it). As soon as I read in their documentation that HBase adapter is experimental and suboptimal (disclaimer here: https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki/Using-HBase) I volunteered to help improving this adapter and since then I made a few changes to improve on running tests (reduced from hours to minutes) and also an improvement on search feature.
Now I'm trying to break the dependency on a pre-installed HBase for unit tests and found miniCluster inside HBase tests, but minicluster demands too much time to start and I don't know if tweaking on configs will improve significantly. Is there a way to start a 'lightweight' instance, like programatically starting a standalone instance? Thanks!! Best regards, Cristofer
