title: Accessing Hadoop data using REST service
body: <p>I am trying to update HDP architecture so data residing in Hive tables can be accessed by REST APIs. What are the best approaches how to expose data from HDP to other services?</p>
  
  <p>This is my initial idea:</p>
  
  <p>I am storing data in Hive tables and I want to expose some of the information through REST API therefore I thought that using HCatalog/WebHCat would be the best solution. However, I found out that it allows only to query metadata. 
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  <p>What are the options that I have here?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>