Disclosure-Compliant Query Answering

Summary: Mascara implements flexible disclosure policies via data masking and query rewriting. A relative-entropy utility model selects disclosure-compliant query with minimal information loss, achieving >90% success and sub-300ms overhead. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6982
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 4.8878659e-05
Overall Rank: 6,901 | 52.04%
DOI: 10.1145/3698808

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,046	Aegis: A Correlation-Based Data Masking Advisor for Data-Sharing Ecosystems	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,857	Algorithmic Data Minimization for Machine Learning over Internet-of-Things Data Streams	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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Showing 24 of 24 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
44	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00071946446
357	Hippocratic Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00026062775
542	Apache Calcite: A Foundational Framework for Optimized Query Processing Over Heterogeneous Data Sources	2018	SIGMOD	0.00020522627
607	Extending Query Rewriting Techniques for Fine-Grained Access Control	2004	SIGMOD	0.00019248482
742	Optimizing Linear Counting Queries Under Differential Privacy	2010	PODS	0.00017336928
1,104	Cardinality Estimation Done Right: Index-Based Join Sampling	2017	CIDR	0.0001398479
1,638	Cardinality Estimation in DBMS: A Comprehensive Benchmark Evaluation	2022	VLDB	0.00011050093
1,740	PrivateSQL: A Differentially Private SQL Query Engine	2019	VLDB	0.00010696383
2,143	Pessimistic Cardinality Estimation: Tighter Upper Bounds for Intermediate Join Cardinalities	2019	SIGMOD	9.4437798e-05
2,303	Auditing Compliance with a Hippocratic Database	2004	VLDB	9.0661151e-05
2,769	FLAT: Fast, Lightweight and Accurate Method for Cardinality Estimation	2021	VLDB	8.1512848e-05
3,022	Secure Yannakakis: Join-Aggregate Queries over Private Data	2021	SIGMOD	7.6942462e-05
3,361	Answering Multi-Dimensional Range Queries under Local Differential Privacy	2021	VLDB	7.1718964e-05
3,590	Automatic Enforcement of Data Use Policies with DataLawyer	2015	SIGMOD	6.9376243e-05
3,992	FactorJoin: A New Cardinality Estimation Framework for Join Queries	2023	SIGMOD	6.5519369e-05
4,413	Robust Query Driven Cardinality Estimation under Changing Workloads	2023	VLDB	6.1989918e-05
6,666	Data Station: Delegated, Trustworthy, and Auditable Computation to Enable Data-Sharing Consortia with a Data Escrow	2022	VLDB	4.9656391e-05
7,108	Red Spider Meets a Rainworm: Conjunctive Query Finite Determinacy Is Undecidable.	2016	PODS	4.8244082e-05
7,306	Compliant Geo-distributed Query Processing	2021	SIGMOD	4.7626702e-05
8,406	Sieve: A Middleware Approach to Scalable Access Control for Database Management Systems	2020	VLDB	4.5161328e-05
9,130	Enabling Personal Consent in Databases	2022	VLDB	4.3858872e-05
9,673	Don’t Be a Tattle-Tale: Preventing Leakages through Data Dependencies on Access Control Protected Data	2022	VLDB	4.3014213e-05
9,674	Sypse: Privacy-first Data Management through Pseudonymization and Partitioning	2021	CIDR	4.3014213e-05
11,529	Compliant Geo-distributed Data Processing in Action	2021	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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