We have been extensively looking into hbase on hadoop, its a fascinating technology. I would love to know how it runs as a basic DB for simple queries. From w

We have been extensively looking into hbase on hadoop, its a fascinating technology. I would love to know how it runs as a basic DB for simple queries. From what we have seen hbase and hadoop are about 10x slower than their google counterparts. Other tests seem to indicated the request time seems to hover between 50 and 250ms. I am in SF and I would like to hack on hadoop and hbase with anyone in the area to run some tests.