This could be a really BIG deal for healthcare if you do it well. I would love to have a completely encrypted db that I could setup dynamic failover and replication. Also an amazing additional feature would be if it contained built-in access logging.
If you were to do that, HIPAA becomes MUCH easier for other healthcare IT startups using your db.
Thanks a lot for the hints! :-)
Hi Michael, if you go opensource way, I would be happy to integrate this into my apache licensed project (see my desc). That would give you head start on Java and Java Collections.