If at some point of time you use hbase, using hadoop on top of that becomes a straightforward task. Both integrate very well with each other. But I think even w

If at some point of time you use hbase, using hadoop on top of that becomes a straightforward task. Both integrate very well with each other. But I think even without hadoop you can do. If the processing is relatively light (e.g. calculating some aggregates, etc) you can do it in near real time just connecting with another consumer to kafka topic.