You can add Impala to HBase and get a pretty good SQL based low latency analytics solution. (If your data is structured to allow impala to take advantage of row

You can add Impala to HBase and get a pretty good SQL based low latency analytics solution. (If your data is structured to allow impala to take advantage of row key ordering) * Disclosure: I'm an Apache HBase committer, I've written parts of Impala's HBase integration, and I work at Cloudera.