NSA built a NoSQL database

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Post by rschildmeijer » Sat, Sep 03, 2011, 8:14 PM UTC

NSA built a NoSQL database
wiki.apache.org

Re: NSA built a NoSQL database

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Post by nirvana » Sat, Sep 03, 2011, 9:17 PM UTC

It seems that the tags for cells seems to be an important feature of this database, and they also mention it is appropriate for places where "privacy is important". Can someone explain the connection between these two? If I'm understanding right, the labeling makes it easy to address individual cells, but I'm not sure how that enhances privacy.

Re: NSA built a NoSQL database

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Post by emehrkay » Sat, Sep 03, 2011, 9:27 PM UTC

    svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/accumulo

doesn't seem to work

Re: NSA built a NoSQL database

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Post by aaronharnly » Sat, Sep 03, 2011, 9:32 PM UTC

nirvana wrote: post #2

It seems that the tags for cells seems to be an important feature of this database, and they also mention it is appropriate for places where "privacy is important". Can someone explain the connection between these two? If I'm understanding right, the labeling makes it easy to address individual cells, but I'm not sure how that enhances privacy.

They seem to be access tags, not just arbitrary tags. I interpret it as item-level ACLs, something like row-level security in SQL databases.

Re: NSA built a NoSQL database

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Post by zokier » Sat, Sep 03, 2011, 9:38 PM UTC

emehrkay wrote: post #3

svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/accumulo doesn't seem to work

It's just a proposal atm. The svn-repo is one of the items they are requesting from ASF

Re: NSA built a NoSQL database

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Sep 03, 2011, 9:46 PM UTC

emehrkay wrote: post #3

svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/accumulo doesn't seem to work

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Re: NSA built a NoSQL database

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Post by jimbokun » Sat, Sep 03, 2011, 9:47 PM UTC

" The core codebase consists of 200,000 lines of code (mainly Java) and 100s of pages of documentation."

100s of pages of documentation is a promising start for any open source project.

Re: NSA built a NoSQL database

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Post by va_coder » Sat, Sep 03, 2011, 9:49 PM UTC

It sounds like Oracle's Label security applied to Hadoop.

It'll be a challenge because Label security slows things down quite a bit.

Re: NSA built a NoSQL database

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Post by jrockway » Sat, Sep 03, 2011, 9:56 PM UTC

jimbokun wrote: post #7

" The core codebase consists of 200,000 lines of code (mainly Java) and 100s of pages of documentation." 100s of pages of documentation is a promising start for any open source project.

It depends on what the documentation is. If it's 100 pages of "AbstractClassFactoryClassFactoryFactory is a class that builds AbstractClassFactoryClassFactory objects", then that's useless.

Also explains why it's 200,000 lines of code, for something that should be an order of magnitude smaller.

Re: NSA built a NoSQL database

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Post by zedshaw » Sat, Sep 03, 2011, 10:02 PM UTC

Prediction: There will be a backdoor.