Apache Hive provides a convenient SQL-based query language to data stored in HDFS. HDFS provides highly scaleable bandwidth to the data, but does not support arbitrary writes. One of Hortonworks` customers needs to store a high volume of customer data (> 1 TB/day) and that data contains a high percentage (15%) of record updates distributed across years. In many high-update use-cases, HBase would s
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