Sqrrl Enterprise, Accumulo, and Encryption

Sqrrl is powered by Apache Accumulo, which was originally developed for the NSA in 2008, is a low latency NoSQL database using Hadoop as its file system.

• Support for both role based and attribute based security controls
• Encryption at rest and in motion
• Can use multiple keys
• Trust boundaries limit the admin’s access to data
• Impact of encryption is only about 10% performance degradation

Sources:

• http://blog.sqrrl.com/post/61133840965/sqrrl-enterprise-accumulo-and-encryption
• http://www.sqrrl.com/accumulo
• http://accumulo.apache.org/