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I don't know. If you read the article, they specifically keep mentioning HBase and Cassandra as the alternatives that the NSA should have tried to build upon ra

I don't know. If you read the article, they specifically keep mentioning HBase and Cassandra as the alternatives that the NSA should have tried to build upon rather than build something from scratch. edit: I will say I'm not familiar enough with the timelines for all 3 projects to know if that is possible, however, I'd imagine Wired would have had been a bit more vocal if there were specific corporate interests they could have tied to the story.

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jfoutz 14y ago
From the apache site, "Apache Accumulo is based on Google's BigTable design and is built on top of Apache Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift." So, it's not like they started from zero, looks more like the early alternatives weren't a good fit. Furthermore i doubt any of the alternatives were very impressive in 2008.
stonemetal 14y ago
Accumulo is almost identical to HBase, except it has security features built in to its core. I wouldn't be surprised if it started out as a fork of HBase.