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NUCLEON is one of the most frequently cited but least cleanly documented NSA database names in the public record. The available sources strongly suggest it was a voice-content storage and query environment. They do not support every later claim made about it. This entry explains what the public record actually shows.
SOMALGET was not just a call-records system. It was a buffered full-audio system. In the public record, it appears as the layer of the MYSTIC architecture that let analysts move from metadata to voice content after the call had already happened, turning whole-network telephony collection into a rolling replay capability.
MYSTIC was not just another metadata program. It was one of the most startling post-Snowden revelations because it showed the NSA could record and revisit the voice traffic of an entire foreign nation, turning live telephony into a searchable audio buffer.