Thanks for the reply! 1. True, the fact that we were deploying Hadoop was a big reason to go with HBase. Despite the challenges, it was a case of "better the d

Thanks for the reply! 1. True, the fact that we were deploying Hadoop was a big reason to go with HBase. Despite the challenges, it was a case of "better the devil we know than the one we don't." 2. Agreed, I played with Cassandra, but again, point #1 carried the day. 3. That's great! I was at HBaseCon 2013 and that only had 750-850 people. I concede this point. ;) Sorry I didn't explore this further, that was my bad. [EDIT] One thing we like is that HBase re-partitions data really fast since data is in HDFS. Not sure how well Cassandra holds up there.