Design/Schema questions

[Mark]

Hi all. We are currently using Flume to aggregate all our logs from all 
of our application servers. Although flume does work, it is extremely 
fussy and goes down without warning. We have decided to look at some 
alternative technologies to help us log and analyze our traffic 
patterns. We basically want to store a record for each request our 
application receives with multiple columns of metadata.. ie, uri, ip, 
session, user, country, browser... etc. We would then like the ability 
to aggregate statistics across any one of those above fields and replay 
sessions give a user, ip or cookie etc. So my first question is, would 
HBase fit our use case? If not can anyone offer some advice on what 
would/should be used?

Assuming HBase does fit our use case does anyone have any suggestions on 
what type of tables/columns would be needed?

Thanks