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If you've got cash http://www.datastax.com/products/enterprise

Otherwise a Cassandra cluster for quick OLTP that batches to an HBase cluster for your OLAP.

That is a poor choice for a non-expert user of Cassandra and Hadoop. The DataStax toolset is very rough. Definitely not an "off the shelf" solution like Cloudera.

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