When to use Hadoop, HBase, Hive and Pig?

Question

What are the benefits of using either Hadoop or HBase or Hive ?

From my understanding, HBase avoi

Answer 1

For a Comparison Between Hadoop Vs Cassandra/HBase read this post.

Basically HBase enables really fast read and writes with scalability. How fast and scalable? Facebook uses it to manage its user statuses, photos, chat messages etc. HBase is so fast sometimes stacks have been developed by Facebook to use HBase as the data store for Hive itself.

Where As Hive is more like a Data Warehousing solution. You can use a syntax similar to SQL to query Hive contents which results in a Map Reduce job. Not ideal for fast, transactional systems.