public static boolean isHBaseGenerateHFiles(Configuration conf) {
    return HiveConf.getBoolVar(conf, HiveConf.ConfVars.HIVE_HBASE_GENERATE_HFILES);
  }
Return true when HBaseStorageHandler should generate hfiles instead of operate against the
online table. This mode is implicitly applied when "hive.hbase.generatehfiles" is true.
hbase-handler/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/hbase/HBaseStorageHandler.java