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: 7043
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.6029996e-05
Overall Rank: 7,503 | 48.53%
DOI: 10.1145/3698808

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Rudi Poepsel-Lemaitre (Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data; Technical University of Berlin)
2. Kaustubh Beedkar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
3. Volker Markl (Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data; German National Research Center for Information Technology; Technical University of Berlin)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{poepsellemaitre_sigmod24,
        title = {{Disclosure-Compliant Query Answering}},
        author = {Poepsel-Lemaitre, Rudi and Beedkar, Kaustubh and Markl, Volker},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '24},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3698808},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3698808},
        year = {2024}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,339	Aegis: A Correlation-Based Data Masking Advisor for Data-Sharing Ecosystems	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,077	Algorithmic Data Minimization for Machine Learning over Internet-of-Things Data Streams	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049302774
404	Hippocratic Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00019065022
445	Apache Calcite: A Foundational Framework for Optimized Query Processing Over Heterogeneous Data Sources	2018	SIGMOD	0.00018336751
552	Extending Query Rewriting Techniques for Fine-Grained Access Control	2004	SIGMOD	0.00016630306
611	Optimizing Linear Counting Queries Under Differential Privacy	2010	PODS	0.00015747402
694	Cardinality Estimation Done Right: Index-Based Join Sampling	2017	CIDR	0.00014911698
1,122	Cardinality Estimation in DBMS: A Comprehensive Benchmark Evaluation	2022	VLDB	0.0001209124
1,144	PrivateSQL: A Differentially Private SQL Query Engine	2019	VLDB	0.00011999046
1,499	Pessimistic Cardinality Estimation: Tighter Upper Bounds for Intermediate Join Cardinalities	2019	SIGMOD	0.00010564536
1,988	FLAT: Fast, Lightweight and Accurate Method for Cardinality Estimation	2021	VLDB	9.3501502e-05
2,107	Auditing Compliance with a Hippocratic Database	2004	VLDB	9.1554362e-05
2,573	Secure Yannakakis: Join-Aggregate Queries over Private Data	2021	SIGMOD	8.4015654e-05
2,991	FactorJoin: A New Cardinality Estimation Framework for Join Queries	2023	SIGMOD	7.8880723e-05
3,338	Robust Query Driven Cardinality Estimation under Changing Workloads	2023	VLDB	7.5068221e-05
3,827	Automatic Enforcement of Data Use Policies with DataLawyer	2015	SIGMOD	7.0909359e-05
4,132	Answering Multi-Dimensional Range Queries under Local Differential Privacy	2021	VLDB	6.8832571e-05
6,659	Data Station: Delegated, Trustworthy, and Auditable Computation to Enable Data-Sharing Consortia with a Data Escrow	2022	VLDB	5.8102042e-05
7,258	Compliant Geo-distributed Query Processing	2021	SIGMOD	5.6614636e-05
7,356	Red Spider Meets a Rainworm: Conjunctive Query Finite Determinacy Is Undecidable.	2016	PODS	5.6348348e-05
8,424	Sieve: A Middleware Approach to Scalable Access Control for Database Management Systems	2020	VLDB	5.4274637e-05
9,228	Enabling Personal Consent in Databases	2022	VLDB	5.3018457e-05
9,838	Don’t Be a Tattle-Tale: Preventing Leakages through Data Dependencies on Access Control Protected Data	2022	VLDB	5.2103651e-05
9,839	Sypse: Privacy-first Data Management through Pseudonymization and Partitioning	2021	CIDR	5.2103651e-05
11,723	Compliant Geo-distributed Data Processing in Action	2021	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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