"My only gripe is the lack of transparency as to what this is primarily used for within the NSA (to be expected I guess)." It's likely just used exactly how yo

"My only gripe is the lack of transparency as to what this is primarily used for within the NSA (to be expected I guess)." It's likely just used exactly how you think it would be; to hold massive amounts of key/value data. No doubt, the NSA likely has tons of data to work with. A NoSQL approach would be seemingly beneficial for this use case.