Built-in functions, UDFs, materialized results, and integrations with ML and AI models make streaming SQL a compelling choice ...

The new managed functions will let enterprises apply LLM reasoning to structured and unstructured data directly in SQL, eliminating prompt tuning and external tools. Google has boosted its BigQuery ...

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the effects of violating the conditions of hash function uniformity and/or independence on the false positive probability of Bloom Filters (BF). To this end, we ...

1 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States 2 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States The specificity of the immune response is critical ...

when applying the hash() function (which defaults to Murmur3Hash with seed 42) to a column that contains NULL values, Blaze's vectorized implementation produces a hash result of 0 for these NULL rows.

The quest to make biometric data private and secure has led to the development of biometric hashing. Hashing is a one-way process in which an algorithm called a cryptographic hash function takes an ...

In the realm of computer science, it’s hard to go too far without encountering hashing or hash functions. The concept appears throughout security, from encryption to password storage to crypto, and ...

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...