HBase support in Metabase

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I currently work for a company called VPGame, which stores the majority of its' data in NoSQL databases. Primarily, HBase. As we would like to expose a Metabase style SQL editor and wrapper for our customers to interact with, and Metabase seems to be the most kept up project for this kind of issue, we would love to see HBase SQL-wrapper support added to Metabase.

We've looked into using Hive as a SQL wrapper for HBase and either building our own SQL editor web-app or using Hue's, but we decided that given Hive and Hue's intermittent (at best) support as of late, building off of their platform is dangerous to the longevity of our project.

We want to use Metabase (or a Metabase style product) in order to allow other users or customers to query our data directly without having to expose and provide tutorials for our NoSQL databases schemas. However, as we also store data in MongoDB, we can't use a Hadoop ecosystem solution such as Hive/Hue etc.