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Hippocratic Databases

Summary: Proposes Hippocratic databases, treating privacy as a founding tenet of data management akin to the medical oath. Outlines a strawman architecture, key privacy challenges, and candidate approaches to catalyze future privacy-preserving DB research. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8841
Venue
VLDB
Year
2002
Pagerank
0.00026062775
Overall Rank
357 | 97.53%
DOI
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149 Trio: A System for Integrated Management of Data, Accuracy, and Lineage 2005 CIDR 0.00041085859
305 On the Complexity of Optimal K-Anonymity 2004 PODS 0.00028264843
323 Order Preserving Encryption for Numeric Data 2004 SIGMOD 0.00027496167
1,785 Limiting Disclosure in Hippocratic Databases 2004 VLDB 0.00010546532
1,853 Information Sharing Across Private Databases 2003 SIGMOD 0.00010323434
2,234 Query Execution Assurance for Outsourced Databases 2005 VLDB 9.2226122e-05
2,303 Auditing Compliance with a Hippocratic Database 2004 VLDB 9.0661151e-05
2,617 LedgerDB: A Centralized Ledger Database for Universal Audit and Verification 2020 VLDB 8.4443822e-05
2,629 Epistemic Privacy 2008 PODS 8.4237864e-05
3,500 On the Correctness Criteria of Fine-Grained Access Control in Relational Databases 2007 VLDB 7.0338899e-05
3,590 Automatic Enforcement of Data Use Policies with DataLawyer 2015 SIGMOD 6.9376243e-05
4,223 GhostDB: Querying Visible and Hidden Data Without Leaks 2007 SIGMOD 6.3409417e-05
5,596 Chip-Secured Data Access: Reconciling Access Rights with Data Encryption 2003 VLDB 5.4167719e-05
5,652 PolicyReplay: Misconfiguration-Response Queries for Data Breach Reporting 2010 VLDB 5.3885559e-05
6,275 Vision Paper: Enabling Privacy for the Paranoids 2004 VLDB 5.1265539e-05
6,666 Data Station: Delegated, Trustworthy, and Auditable Computation to Enable Data-Sharing Consortia with a Data Escrow 2022 VLDB 4.9656391e-05
6,901 Disclosure-Compliant Query Answering 2024 SIGMOD 4.8878659e-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
9,047 Secure and Policy-Compliant Query Processing on Heterogeneous Computational Storage Architectures 2022 SIGMOD 4.3997447e-05
9,343 Preservation of Proximity Privacy in Publishing Numerical Sensitive Data 2008 SIGMOD 4.351469e-05
9,642 PoneglyphDB: Efficient Non-interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Arbitrary SQL-Query Verification 2025 SIGMOD 4.3067693e-05
9,673 Don’t Be a Tattle-Tale: Preventing Leakages through Data Dependencies on Access Control Protected Data 2022 VLDB 4.3014213e-05
12,028 The Case for Personal Data-Driven Decision Making 2014 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,034 Stop That Query! The Need for Managing Data Use 2013 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
12,035 Trusted Cells: A Sea Change for Personal Data Services 2013 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
12,058 The Power of Data Use Management in Action 2013 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
12,254 Pluggable Personal Data Servers 2010 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
12,273 Secure Personal Data Servers: a Vision Paper 2010 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,437 Beyond Just Data Privacy 2007 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
12,474 GhostDB: Hiding Data from Prying Eyes 2007 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,537 User Profile Management in Converged Networks (Episode II): "Share your data, Keep your secrets" 2005 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
12,604 An Electronic Patient Record "on Steroids": Distributed, Peer-to-Peer, Secure and Privacy-conscious 2004 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,606 A Multi-Purpose Implementation of Mandatory Access Control in Relational Database Management Systems 2004 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,625 Privacy in Data Systems 2003 PODS 4.1905499e-05
12,650 Privacy-Enhanced Data Management for Next-Generation e-Commerce 2003 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
13,706 Managing Healthcare Data Hippocratically 2004 SIGMOD -
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
84 Statistical Databases: Characteristics, Problems, and Some Solutions 1982 VLDB 0.00053684302
112 Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System 2001 VLDB 0.00047010908
119 Executing SQL over Encrypted Data in the Database-Service-Provider Model 2002 SIGMOD 0.00045724707
198 Declarative Data Cleaning: Language, Model, and Algorithms 2001 VLDB 0.0003505869
474 A study on the protection of statistical data bases 1977 SIGMOD 0.00022254066
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