HadoopDB

Ok, so now we're talking. Thanks to slashdot I found this article

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2009/07/announcing-release-of-hadoopdb-longer.html

Great thing about this is that I can easily use JDBC in my front end code and leverage the benefits of Hadoop and everything else on the backend without major code changes. At least, this is my initial thought.