Auditing Compliance with a Hippocratic Database

Summary: Auditing framework for Hippocratic databases checks disclosure-policy compliance via user-defined audit expressions. It logs queries with annotations; at audit time, static analysis selects relevant logs and converts them into an SQL audit query. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9161
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 9.0754111e-05
Overall Rank: 2,297 | 84.03%
DOI: -

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2,625	Epistemic Privacy	2008	PODS	8.4317678e-05
3,242	Explanation-Based Auditing	2012	VLDB	7.3301779e-05
3,258	Towards Robustness in Query Auditing	2006	VLDB	7.3150323e-05
5,641	PolicyReplay: Misconfiguration-Response Queries for Data Breach Reporting	2010	VLDB	5.3930574e-05
6,073	Impliance: A Next Generation Information Management Appliance	2007	CIDR	5.2253416e-05
6,510	Efficient Auditing For Complex SQL queries	2011	SIGMOD	5.0326078e-05
6,898	Disclosure-Compliant Query Answering	2024	SIGMOD	4.8925595e-05
7,324	Compliant Geo-distributed Query Processing	2021	SIGMOD	4.762032e-05
8,515	Auditing Disclosure by Relevance Ranking	2007	SIGMOD	4.4944066e-05
9,130	Enabling Personal Consent in Databases	2022	VLDB	4.3900952e-05
12,026	Stop That Query! The Need for Managing Data Use	2013	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
12,094	On Scaling Up Sensitive Data Auditing	2013	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,196	Whodunit: An Auditing Tool for Detecting Data Breaches	2011	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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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
41	NiagaraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases	2000	SIGMOD	0.00073964959
106	Extensible/Rule Based Query Rewrite Optimization in Starburst	1992	SIGMOD	0.00048400734
355	Hippocratic Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00026087195
1,787	Limiting Disclosure in Hippocratic Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00010557823

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