As some of the comments on the linked article point out, Apache Accumulo is one of several implementations of BigTable; another one, also hosted by Apache, is H

As some of the comments on the linked article point out, Apache Accumulo is one of several implementations of BigTable; another one, also hosted by Apache, is HBase. As far as the fundamental technology goes, this particular cat (key-value stores scalable to very large data sets) is out of the bag, and used by many people besides the NSA. Would Apache dropping support for one particular BigTable implementation meaningfully hinder the NSA?