I am looking for a native offering, such as any of the RDS solutions, Elastic Cache, Amazon Redshift, not something that I would have to host myself.
From the Apache Kudu: https://kudu.apache.org/ :
Kudu provides a combination of fast inserts/updates and efficient columnar
scans to enable multiple real-time analytic workloads across a single storage
layer. As a new complement to HDFS and Apache HBase, Kudu gives architects the
flexibility to address a wider variety of use cases without exotic workarounds.
As I understand it, Kudu is a columnar distributed storage engine for tabular data that allows for fast scans and ad-hoc analytical queries but ALSO allows for random updates and inserts. Every table has a primary key that you can use to find and update single records...