Limiting Disclosure in Hippocratic Databases

Summary: Practical integration of privacy policy enforcement into existing application and database environments for Hippocratic databases; analyzes cell-level granularity and semantic tradeoffs. Empirical evaluation shows enforcement cost is small and scalable to large databases. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9399
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 9.5249347e-05
Overall Rank: 1,896 | 87.00%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50013-9

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Kristen LeFevre (IBM; University of Wisconsin)
2. Rakesh Agrawal (IBM)
3. Vuk Ercegovac (University of Wisconsin)
4. Raghu Ramakrishnan (University of Wisconsin)
5. Yirong Xu (IBM)
6. David DeWitt (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@article{lefevre_vldb04,
        title = {{Limiting Disclosure in Hippocratic Databases}},
        author = {LeFevre, Kristen and Agrawal, Rakesh and Ercegovac, Vuk and Ramakrishnan, Raghu and Xu, Yirong and DeWitt, David},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        pages = {108},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50013-9},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50013-9},
        year = {2004}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,107	Auditing Compliance with a Hippocratic Database	2004	VLDB	9.1554362e-05
3,174	On the Correctness Criteria of Fine-Grained Access Control in Relational Databases	2007	VLDB	7.6663399e-05
5,711	PolicyReplay: Misconfiguration-Response Queries for Data Breach Reporting	2010	VLDB	6.1128939e-05
6,536	Interactive Query Formulation over Web Service-Accessed Sources	2006	SIGMOD	5.8486657e-05
7,258	Compliant Geo-distributed Query Processing	2021	SIGMOD	5.6614636e-05
7,401	Membrane - Safe and Performant Data Access Controls in Apache Spark in the Presence of Imperative Code	2024	VLDB	5.6255291e-05
8,424	Sieve: A Middleware Approach to Scalable Access Control for Database Management Systems	2020	VLDB	5.4274637e-05
8,749	Optimal Security-Aware Query Processing	2014	VLDB	5.3766157e-05
8,900	Redundancy and Information Leakage in Fine-Grained Access Control	2006	SIGMOD	5.3493418e-05
9,198	Secure and Policy-Compliant Query Processing on Heterogeneous Computational Storage Architectures	2022	SIGMOD	5.3058708e-05
9,226	Collaborative Access Control in WebdamLog	2015	SIGMOD	5.3027519e-05
9,228	Enabling Personal Consent in Databases	2022	VLDB	5.3018457e-05
12,223	Stop That Query! The Need for Managing Data Use	2013	CIDR	5.093636e-05
12,648	CLIDE: Interactive Query Formulation for Service Oriented Architectures	2007	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
404	Hippocratic Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00019065022
595	An Authorization Mechanism for a Relational Data Base System	1976	SIGMOD	0.000159408
5,280	Enter Once, Share Everywhere: User Profile Management in Converged Networks	2003	CIDR	6.2842528e-05

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