I'm planning to use a NoSQL distributed database. I did some searching and came across a lot of database systems such as MongoDB, CouchDB, Hbase, Cassandra, Hypertable, etc.
Since what I'll be doing is frequently reading a varying amount of data, and less frequently writing a massive amount of data, I thought Hbase, or Hypertable is the way to go. I did some internet and found some performance comparison between HBase and HyperTable. Obviously HT dominated Hbase in every aspect (random read/write and a couple of more) But the comparison was made with Hbase 0.20.4, and Hbase had much improvements since the current version is 0.90.3. I am curious if the performance gap is still large between Hbase and HT. I am running Hadoop already so I wanted to go with Hbase but the performance gap was so big that it made me reconsider. Any opinions please?
