GhostDB: Querying Visible and Hidden Data Without Leaks

Summary: GhostDB allows private/public data queries; only query identities leak via a tamper-resistant USB key holding private data. Processing split between host and secure key links data without leakage, outlining practical framework for secure data fusion. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3953
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 6.6601566e-05
Overall Rank: 4,501 | 69.13%
DOI: 10.1145/1247480.1247555

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Authors

1. Nicolas Anciaux (INRIA)
2. Mehdi Benzine (INRIA; University of Versailles)
3. Luc Bouganim (INRIA)
4. Philippe Pucheral (INRIA; University of Versailles)
5. Dennis Shasha (INRIA; New York University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{anciaux_sigmod07,
        title = {{GhostDB: Querying Visible and Hidden Data Without Leaks}},
        author = {Anciaux, Nicolas and Benzine, Mehdi and Bouganim, Luc and Pucheral, Philippe and Shasha, Dennis},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247555},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247555},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
526	TrustedDB: A Trusted Hardware based Database with Privacy and Data Confidentiality	2011	SIGMOD	0.00017112934
1,804	Authenticated Join Processing in Outsourced Databases	2009	SIGMOD	9.7171985e-05
12,441	Pluggable Personal Data Servers	2010	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,459	Building Disclosure Risk Aware Query Optimizers for Relational Databases	2010	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,460	Secure Personal Data Servers: a Vision Paper	2010	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,659	GhostDB: Hiding Data from Prying Eyes	2007	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
80	Hashing Methods and Relational Algebra Operations	1984	VLDB	0.00036536643
114	Executing SQL over Encrypted Data in the Database-Service-Provider Model	2002	SIGMOD	0.00032363776
404	Hippocratic Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00019065022
1,881	PicoDBMS: Scaling down Database Techniques for the Smartcard	2000	VLDB	9.5516239e-05
2,643	GnatDb: A Small-Footprint, Secure Database System	2002	VLDB	8.3046882e-05
2,736	Efficient Execution of Joins in a Star Schema	2002	SIGMOD	8.1891265e-05

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