Ofer A. Lidsky is an entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience and is the founder and CEO of Excellent Brain. In today’s digital age, data encryption is vital for protecting sensitive information.

MongoDB 6.0 introduces a preview feature that pulls off the quasi-magical feat of allowing encrypted data to be used as the target of searches, without ever transmitting the keys to the database.

Surrogate means a stand-in, a substitute. Surrogate keys take the place of a natural key as the primary key within a database table. Ideally, surrogate keys stand in the shadows and are used in ...