Upgraded APIs: Flink (0.8) and HBase (0.98.x) + profiles

I had to create an hadoop.core.version variable to manage the fact that cloudera has different versions for hadoop-core and hadoop-common..
If there is a huge table with a several thousand regions, the initial size of the split list would be that big even if only a few regions should be read. If we start with a smaller value, the list would grow by need (with a bit of overhead for reorganization of cause).