title: How to use hbase as a source for hadoop streaming jobs
body: <p>Is there any way to use a Hbase table as a source for a Hadoop streaming job ? Specifically, I want to run a Hadoop streaming job written in Python. This works well when the input is specified as a folder on HDFS. But I've not been able to find any documentation about reading data from a Hbase table.</p>
  
  <p>Is this supported ? Or I'll have to go through the ordeal of writing a java code for getting data from Hbase to HDFS first and then run streaming job ?</p>
  
  <p>I'm using Hbase 0.94 from Cloudera.</p>
  
  <p>(There is a similar question <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1706754/hadoop-mapreduce-streaming-from-hbase" title="similar question">already present here</a>. But it points to a third party solution, not actively contributed to. I was hoping that this will be supported in Hbase).</p>