By Craxel Founder and CEO David Enga

March 5, 2024

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In a recent PCMag article, the White House called on the tech industry to use programming languages that are less vulnerable to cyberattacks. This is very interesting from a database perspective. I believe that Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, PostGres, and MySQL were all written in C. In addition, there are database variants and data warehouse products that have been built off PostGres. This constitutes the bulk of today's enterprise data layer.

Fortunately, Craxel’s Black Forest Database has been built entirely using a memory safe language. So how can Black Forest be so incredibly fast when it wasn't written in C? The answer is our O(1) algorithms and a lot of careful engineering.

If you are building something for the U.S. government, you might want to think about using a database constructed using a memory safe language. Drop us a line.

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