I read a thread "Use cases of Hbase" in March archive, and several people seemed to suggest that an HBase cell can be used as a mixed cell for data crunching and online serving (i.e, using Hive Hbase client to do the analytics part while serving live query, see http://osdir.com/ml/hbase-user-hadoop-apache/2010-03/msg00299.html), did someone really have such successful story? I am a little doubtful about that idea.
Someone else also implied such use case "Since 0.20.0, results of analytic computations over the data can be materialized and served out in real time in response to queries. This is a complete solution." Can someone share the experience on such an option? Thanks, Sean
