A comparison of database systems for rapid search results in large amounts of leaked data

2019

Master's thesis Information- and communication technology IKT590 - University of Agder 2019 A large portion of the information on the Internet is stored in databases, since databases arethe natural place among online services for storage of user information. Hackers occasionallybreach web sites and publish database records online, resulting in personal user informationleaked in the public domain and available for abuse by malicious actors.Several web services offer the opportunity to search in numerous data breaches with as muchas six billion records or more and response times less than one second for each single query.This thesis investigates performance optimization methods that can be ap…