Future of HCatalog - Hadoop Summit 2012This document discusses the future of HCatalog, which provides a table abstraction and metadata layer for Hadoop data. It summarizes Alan Gates' background with Hadoop projects like Pig and Hive. It then outlines how HCatalog opens up metadata to MapReduce and Pig. It describes the Templeton REST API for HCatalog and how it allows creating, describing and listing tables. It proposes using HCatRead
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