title: When to use Hadoop, HBase, Hive and Pig?
body: <p>What are the benefits of using either <strong>Hadoop</strong> or <strong>HBase</strong> or <strong>Hive</strong> ?</p>
  
  <p>From my understanding, <strong>HBase</strong> avoids using map-reduce and has a column oriented storage on top of HDFS. <strong>Hive</strong> is a sql-like interface for <strong>Hadoop</strong> and <strong>HBase</strong>. </p>
  
  <p>I would also like to know how <strong>Hive</strong> compares with <strong>Pig</strong>.</p>