Streamsx-hbase

This is a release candidate for the HBase Toolkit v2.0.0 release.

In this release, we added the following:
- Consistent Region Support
- Support for BigInsight v3.0.0.x
- Enhanced how the operators can be configured
- Added new samples
- Doc Updates
- Bug Fixes


streams_3.2.2beta
This release contains the toolkit for accessing Hbase from IBM Infosphere Streams 3.2.2 Beta.

For more information on the Streams 3.2.2 Beta, visit
[Streams 3.2.2 Beta Community](https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/community/streams322beta)

The binary for this release contains the apache jar files needed to access Hbase. We have tested this release against HBASE 0.96.

Known issue:
- This toolkit will not work in Streams 3.2.2 beta with the hadoop client jars from version 0.96.0. The jars packaged in the release zip are from 0.98.4, and they do work. If you download the jars yourself, get hbase client 0.98.4.

NOTE: This version of the toolkit uses maven to download dependencies. To use:
(1) set `M2_HOME` to point to your maven install
(2) set your pom file. here are three sample pom files in com.ibm.streamx.hbase--one for HBASE 0.94, one for HBASE 0.96 on hadoop1, and one for HBASE 0.96 on hadoop2. Copy the right file to pom.xml in com.ibm.streams.hbase.
(3) build using ant
- Builds with maven, so can select appropriate version and relevant jars will be downloaded.
- Supports for blob and long in addition to rstring
- Fix a thread-safety bug
- Parameter to point to hbase-site.xml file instead of picking it up from HBASE_HOME (optional)
- Allow HBASEScan to be started via an input tuple.

We are actively evolving this toolkit. Operator names and functionality may change.

In addition to the functionality provided by the toolkit on StreamsDev:
- provided a way to HBASEPut, HBASEGet, HBASEScan to put and get an entire tuple, interpreting attribute names as column qualifiers.
- Added support for a parallelized HBASEScan
- Added an initDelay parameter to HBASEScan

Original functionality from StreamsDev:
- HBASEPut: Put a tuple into HBASE, with support for checkAndPut
- HBASEDelete: Remove a entry or an entire row from HBASE, with support for checkAndDelete
- HBASEIncrement: Increment a value
- HBASEScan: Scan a table.
- HBASEGet: Get a particular entry, or the map of column qualifiers to values, or the entire row (map of families to map of column qualifiers to values"