Accumulo - A Secure BigTable Courtesy of NSA

http://www.informationweek.com/government/enterprise-applications/accumulo-nsas-big-data-platform-faces-en/240008916

by s2m • 14 years ago

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cpenner461• 14 years ago

I'm curious to see how things will play out between the likes of Accumulo and HBase.

monstrado• 14 years ago

Yes, it will be interesting. HBase has a larger community and user base, which will surely help in its adoption. Accumulo & HBase have very similar architectures and purposes, so much that the NSA caught a little heat from the Senate (http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/nsa-accumulo-go...). If you absolutely need cell level security than you might want to go with Accumulo, otherwise, use HBase.

Evbn• 14 years ago

Does it come close to the advertised performance efficiency of BigTable? HBase is a resource hog, often blamed on the unoptimized Java of the Hadoop stack.

bascule• 14 years ago

> "Accumulo's cell-level security makes it possible to set access control for individual pieces of data using 'visibility tags.'"

Are these so-called "visibility tags" really crypto-capabilities?

wmf• 14 years ago

It sounds more like labeled security. (SENoSQL?)

Accumulo - A Secure BigTable Courtesy of NSA

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