title: NoSql or MySQL for Data Analytics
body: <p>We have a cluster (hadoop, pig) which churns data 350Gb (growing couple of GB a week). </p>
  
  <p>All these data need to be made available for Analytics. </p>
  
  <p>We have a Msyql solution with star schema(only parts of data is loaded on to this). But </p>
  
  <p>concern is how far one can stretch this ? </p>
  
  <p>Should I be looking at NoSQL like Hive for data analytics ?? </p>
  
  <p>I read this article <a href="http://anders.com/cms/282/Distributed.Data/Hadoop/Hbase/Hive" rel="noreferrer">http://anders.com/cms/282/Distributed.Data/Hadoop/Hbase/Hive</a></p>
  
  <p>How big is big Data, and when should I be looking away from MySQL?
  Will the structural rigidness of Mysql cause problems ?</p>
  
  <p>Currently the data is only few GB(in MySQL), But it certainly will grow. 
  How about MySQL clustering ?? </p>
  
  <p>Should I be going down this path at all ??</p>