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by taftster 5407 days ago
"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.