Storing aggregates on its own? No. 
Storing aggregates of a data set that is the primary target? Sure. Why not? 

On Jan 9, 2015, at 9:00 PM, Buntu Dev <[email protected]> wrote:

> I got a CDH cluster with data being ingested via Flume to store in HDFS as
> Avro. Currently, I query the dataset using Hive. I would like to use HBase
> to store some frequently used top aggregates for example, number of views
> per page, etc.
> 
> Being new to HBase, I wanted to know if its the correct usecase for HBase.
> If so, how does one go about storing the aggregates into HBase and use the
> REST interface that HBase provides.
> 
> Thanks for the help!

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