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Accumulo: Why The World Needs Another NoSQL Database

Jeff Kelly | siliconangle.com | August 20, 2012

If you’ve been unable to keep up with all the competing NoSQL databases that have hit the market over the last several years, you’re not alone. To name just a few, there’s HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, Riak, CouchDB, Redis, and Neo4J. To that list you can add Accumulo, an open source database originally developed at the National Security Agency... Read More »

From NSA To Open Source : Apps Are ‘Nuggets Of Innovaton,’ Says Sqrrl | #BigDataNYC

Valentina Craft | Silicon Angle | October 31, 2013

Adam Fuchs, CTO of sqrrl, had a noteworthy chat with Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly at the BigDataNYC 2013 event in New York, covering topics ranging from the Big data lessons learned at the NSA to the NoSQL database. Read More »

NSA Veterans’ Start-Up Offers Secure Data Mining

Michael B. Farrell | The Boston Globe | November 4, 2013

The National Security Agency’s digital snooping may have inflamed a national debate over privacy, but it has been a godsend for a tiny start-up in Cambridge.  Read More »

NSA's Accumulo NoSQL Store Offers Role-Based Data Access

Joab Jackson | InfoWorld | October 31, 2013

With its much-discussed enthusiasm for collecting large amounts of data, the NSA naturally found much interest in the idea of highly scalable NoSQL databases. Read More »

NSA's Big Data Platform Faces Enterprise Test

J. Nicholas Hoover | InformationWeek | October 11, 2012

Accumulo, the data storage software developed by the National Security Agency, has taken another step toward the enterprise market. Sqrrl, the startup launched by former NSA technologists to commercialize Accumulo, has teamed up with Apache Hadoop provider Hortonworks to combine their technologies. Read More »

Senate puts brakes on NSA Accumulo Project that mimics Google

Cade Metz | Wired | July 17, 2012

But the NSA also saw the database as something that could improve security across the federal government — and beyond. Last September, the agency open sourced its Google mimic, releasing the code as the Accumulo project. It’s a common open source story — except that the Senate Armed Services Committee wants to put the brakes on the project. Read More »

Sqrrl Raises $2 Million For Secure, Scalable Big Data Technology Originally Developed At NSA

Alex Williams | TechCrunch | August 20, 2012

Sqrrl, a big data startup that came out of development at the National Security Agency (NSA), has raised $2 million in seed funding from Matrix Partners and Atlas Venture. Read More »

Sqrrl Snags $5.2M To Commercialize The NSA’s Accumulo Database

Barb Darrow and Derrick Harris | GigaOM | October 21, 2013

New funding from Atlas Venture and Matrix Ventures will help the NoSQL database vendor push its product globally. Read More »