Tagged with: data management

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Privacy Preserving Transformations

Given a private database that I can access only through specific queries, there is still a lot I can learn on its entries [1]. Differential Privacy (DP) tackles this: letting me learn the (approximate) result of complex queries on a database, but preventing me from learning much about its specific entries. The basic approach of DP often boils down to: “apply a privacy-preserving transformation T …
Supervisors: Zsolt István
Semester: Spring 2021
Tags: Theoretical Computer Science, Data Management, Security and Privacy

PROPOSAL

Can Permissioned Blockchains Replace Traditional Databases? Benchmarking Case Study

Blockchains are often used synonymously with crypto-currencies and unspent transaction output (UTXO) data models, but there are emerging blockchain platforms that offer a more general data model and smart contracts that can manipulate this data freely (e.g. Hyperledger Fabric [1]). As such, these platforms resemble in many ways distributed databases, storing a collection of records, organized as …
Supervisors: Zsolt István
Semester: Spring 2021
Tags: Blockchain, Data Management, Benchmarking