Getting HBase to run directly on S3 would avoid all those issues. As a strategic customer with a strategic project to both parties, FINRA got Amazon's support to do the port.

HBase’s native Java API provides the richest functionality to programmers, though HBase also sports the language-agnostic Thrift interface, as well as a RESTful Web service interface.

HBase showed the best results under a workload that included large volumes of writes. Cassandra was second. The NDB engine of MySQL Cluster also managed intensive writes perfectly well.

HBase (structured storage for large tables) Cassandra (multi-master database) Of course, it’s not always sunshine and roses with this type of solution. Lam says the main pitfalls have to do with ...