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NSA Makes Contribution To Apache Hadoop Project

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 4, 2011 @07:13AM from the need-a-hand? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The National Security Agency has submitted a new database, Accumulo, to the Apache Foundation for incubation. Accumulo is based on the original BigTable paper with some extensions such as the ability to provide cell-level security. It appears there are some hurdles that must be cleared concerning copyright before the project could be accepted."

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Re:Why an Apache donation by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-04 07:42 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Possibly because they want someone else to maintain the code for them. This way the NSA gets to keep their cell-level security and sit back while others provide bug fixes and new features.