The document discusses some unintended benefits that the Department of Home Affairs discovered from implementing Hadoop. It describes how Hadoop was initially used for passenger systems and the Teradata data warehouse, but then enabled additional uses. Solr was used to enable fast search of billions of rows across Hadoop, improving on slow full table scans in Teradata. A graph database called JanusGraph was also implemented on Hadoop to enable relationship analysis and predictive analytics for security use cases. The document outlines the architectures used and lessons learned around performance, security, and managing expectations for these new capabilities enabled by Hadoop.