Cloudera now supports Accumulo, the NSA’s take on HBase by Derrick Harris.
From the post:
Cloudera will be integrating with the Apache Accumulo database and, according to a press release, “devoting significant internal engineering resources to speed Accumulo’s development.” The National Security Agency created Accumulo and built in fine-grained authentication to ensure only authorized individuals could see ay given piece of data. Cloudera’s support could be bittersweet for Sqrrl, an Accumulo startup comprised of former NSA engineers and intelligence experts, which should benefit from a bigger ecosystem but whose sales might suffer if Accumulo makes its way into Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution.
I would think the bittersweet part would be the NSA’s supporting of a design that leaves them with document level security.
It’s great that they can control access to how many saucers are stolen from White House dinners every year but document security, other than at the grossest level, goes wanting.
Maybe they haven’t heard of SGML or XML?
If you don’t mind, mention XML in your phone calls every now and again. Maybe if enough people say it, then it will come up on the “big board.”