I'm interested to learn if people are using hbase as a primary store or is it more for "2nd class" type data.
Pretend you have a CMS product, or eCommerce Saas application: What I mean by this is, I consider "primary store" to mean storing the actual content (say articles, or blog posts), category data, user information, or shopping cart order, product information. "2nd class" type data is data like metrics, analytics, log data, or say index data (data that can be re-built via the primary store). In general 2nd class data is data that if lost, it won't bring the business to its knees. What do you guys think, am I right? i.e. if you are creating a Saas product, it wouldn't be advisible to build it using hbase (or it will be kind of bleeding edge architecture).
