I have sucessfully installed Hypertable on top of Hadoop on a small cluster of Ubunto servers. At this point the only way to access the Hypertable is via the 'ht shell' command on one of the HT servers.
Thats all very interesting, but now I want to access the hypertable database from a PC thats not part of the cluster. Preferably from C++ - preferably on a Windows box.
It looks like I need a Vistual Studio compatible build of libHypertable.