Apache Accumulo is based on Google’s BigTable design, built on the Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift projects (also from Apache), with strong support for data security built right in. Accumulo is a ...

The National Security Agency may not be the first organization that comes to mind when you think of contributors to open source software projects. But over the last few years, as we reported last ...

In 2008, a team of software coders inside the National Security Agency started reverse-engineering the database that ran Google. They closely followed the Google research paper describing BigTable -- ...

Hack/reduce, a Boston-based nonprofit organization that acts as a springboard for Big Data projects, will host efforts to develop a security layer that would sit on top of the Hadoop open source ...

When the National Security Agency (NSA) in the U.S. released the Accumulo project into open source territory in 2008, there were not a lot of details about the size and capability of the hardware it ...