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: 9162
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 9.0661151e-05
Overall Rank: 2,303 | 84.00%
DOI: -

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3,248	Explanation-Based Auditing	2012	VLDB	7.3232501e-05
3,264	Towards Robustness in Query Auditing	2006	VLDB	7.3073465e-05
5,652	PolicyReplay: Misconfiguration-Response Queries for Data Breach Reporting	2010	VLDB	5.3885559e-05
6,078	Impliance: A Next Generation Information Management Appliance	2007	CIDR	5.2203245e-05
6,504	Efficient Auditing For Complex SQL queries	2011	SIGMOD	5.0283716e-05
6,901	Disclosure-Compliant Query Answering	2024	SIGMOD	4.8878659e-05
7,306	Compliant Geo-distributed Query Processing	2021	SIGMOD	4.7626702e-05
8,513	Auditing Disclosure by Relevance Ranking	2007	SIGMOD	4.4901852e-05
9,130	Enabling Personal Consent in Databases	2022	VLDB	4.3858872e-05
12,034	Stop That Query! The Need for Managing Data Use	2013	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
12,102	On Scaling Up Sensitive Data Auditing	2013	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,204	Whodunit: An Auditing Tool for Detecting Data Breaches	2011	VLDB	4.1905499e-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	0.00073944756
107	Extensible/Rule Based Query Rewrite Optimization in Starburst	1992	SIGMOD	0.00048363446
357	Hippocratic Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00026062775
1,785	Limiting Disclosure in Hippocratic Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00010546532

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