HBase is the Hadoop database. Use it when you need random, realtime read/write access to your Big Data. This project's goal is the hosting of very large tables -- billions of rows X millions of columns -- atop clusters of commodity hardware.
Created attachment 229973 [details] apache-hbase-0.20.3.ebuild
Added to my overlay (wolf31o2 in layman)... http://git.wolf31o2.org/gitweb/?p=overlays/wolf31o2.git;a=commit;h=6867f3530ee144ee561cab6fc220de29212a547a
Closing obsolete proposal. Clearly the Hadoop ecosystem packaging is too much for the manpower we have I'm afraid.