It sounds like maybe they should be using sqoop to import directly in to HDFS. It also sounds like they may not be exploiting parallelism properly. Depending on

It sounds like maybe they should be using sqoop to import directly in to HDFS. It also sounds like they may not be exploiting parallelism properly. Depending on the queries sometimes its easier to create multiple tables in hbase from the SQL import and have your hbase schemas correlate to the analytics queries that are most common.