Of course any major RDBMS would have no problem with the data. If the reports here are accurate, you could fit the last 5-20 years of all NOTAM messages into th

Of course any major RDBMS would have no problem with the data. If the reports here are accurate, you could fit the last 5-20 years of all NOTAM messages into the RAM of a Raspberry Pi running SQLite. But if that's enough, why hasn't the FAA solved the problem already? And even a "major RDBMS" is vulnerable to stodgy management leaving design in a state where it's vulnerable to a single central point of failure, where "2 contractors who introduced data errors" (!) can bring it down. Modern highly-distributed consensus systems are not vulnerable to that. Neither accident nor malice from 2 government contractors could prevent all authorized updates worldwide in a distributed consensus system like Ethereum. DC & northern Virginia (or wherever the FAA's systems hosted) could even spontaneously disappear into a lava pit and the official consensus set of NOTAMs would continue to update.