(…due to Hadoop, HBase, and Hive) If you wanted to generate intelligence or other OLAPish things from large amounts of data (TBs) three years ago, you faced a terrifying prospect: You bought a server (or several large servers) costing $x00,000, paid for software from Oracle, Sybase, or IBM, and then prayed to Data Jesus that it would meet your needs for a few years. You’d find all the data you cou
