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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. Software security ” (or “cybersecurity” or similar) means making software able to protect its assets from a malicious attacker. Acknowledgments.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

Software Update License & Support (annual). $0. Comparison Overview. Oracle also offers many tools, but they are all available as add-on solutions with additional processor license and software update license costs and support fees. pg_repack – reorganizes tables online to reclaim storage. Objective C.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). MariaDB retains compatibility with MySQL, offers support for different programming languages, including Python, PHP, Java, and Perl, and works with all major open source storage engines such as MyRocks, Aria, and InnoDB.

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HammerDB for Managers

HammerDB

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The HammerDB name.

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AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

The Netflix TechBlog

By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan De C**k¹, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron TL; DR We need an alternative to JPEG that a) is widely supported, b) has better compression efficiency and c) has a wider feature set. We believe AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) has the potential.

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Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs

The Morning Paper

We group the DBMS design choices and tradeoffs into three broad categories, which result from the need for dealing with (A) external storage; (B) query executors that are spun on demand; and (C) DBMS-as-a-service offerings. Another interesting experiment here compared the effects on performance of different storage types.

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Approaches to System Security: Using Cryptographic Techniques to Minimize Trust

ACM Sigarch

Naively securing this system would require a large amount of trust; “guns and guards”, trusted personnel, and trusted software and hardware. On the other hand, one can implement this system with encryption/decryption units between the compute and the storage. Proofs of retrievability provide a guarantee that data hasn’t been deleted.

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