Hadoop and HBase are used to provide real-time analytics on video streaming data for a company called LongTail Video. Over 1 billion video streams are processed monthly, generating 16 billion analytics events and 15 TB of data. HBase clusters in Amazon EWS are used to store and query this analytics data in real-time, with 80 million data points inserted daily. Challenges include dealing with exotic bugs at scale and preference for SQL queries over HBase's key-value data model, but with proper row key design and resource provisioning, HBase can handle these real-time analytics needs.