public HBaseStoreManager(org.apache.commons.configuration.Configuration config)
      throws StorageException {
    super(config, PORT_DEFAULT);

    this.tableName = config.getString(TABLE_NAME_KEY, TABLE_NAME_DEFAULT);

    this.hconf = HBaseConfiguration.create();
    for (Map.Entry<String, String> confEntry : HBASE_CONFIGURATION.entrySet()) {
      if (config.containsKey(confEntry.getKey())) {
        hconf.set(confEntry.getValue(), config.getString(confEntry.getKey()));
      }
    }

    // Copy a subset of our commons config into a Hadoop config
    org.apache.commons.configuration.Configuration hbCommons =
        config.subset(HBASE_CONFIGURATION_NAMESPACE);

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // I hope commons-config eventually fixes this
    Iterator<String> keys = hbCommons.getKeys();
    int keysLoaded = 0;

    while (keys.hasNext()) {
      String key = keys.next();
      String value = hbCommons.getString(key);
      logger.debug("HBase configuration: setting {}={}", key, value);
      hconf.set(key, value);
      keysLoaded++;
    }

    logger.debug("HBase configuration: set a total of {} configuration values", keysLoaded);

    connectionPool = new HTablePool(hconf, connectionPoolSize);

    openStores = new ConcurrentHashMap<String, HBaseKeyColumnValueStore>();

    // TODO: allowing publicly mutate fields is bad, should be fixed
    features = new StoreFeatures();
    features.supportsScan = true;
    features.supportsBatchMutation = true;
    features.supportsTransactions = false;
    features.supportsConsistentKeyOperations = true;
    features.supportsLocking = false;
    features.isKeyOrdered = false;
    features.isDistributed = true;
    features.hasLocalKeyPartition = false;
  }
 @Override
 public void setConf(org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration conf) {
   if (conf == null) return; // you first get a null configuration - ignore that
   String mos = conf.get(AvroJob.MAP_OUTPUT_SCHEMA);
   Schema schema = Schema.parse(mos);
   pair = new Pair<Object, Object>(schema);
   Schema keySchema = Pair.getKeySchema(schema);
   final List<Field> fields = keySchema.getFields();
   final GenericRecord key = new GenericData.Record(keySchema);
   projector = new Projector(key, fields);
 }