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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
h0f7236ff53040cc3
Venue
VLDB
Year
2002
Pagerank
0.00018699914
Overall Rank
411 | 97.24%
DOI
10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50021-4

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BibTeX Citation

@article{agrawal_vldb02,
        title = {{Hippocratic Databases}},
        author = {Agrawal, Rakesh and Kiernan, Jerry and Srikant, Ramakrishnan and Xu, Yirong},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '02},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50021-4},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50021-4},
        year = {2002}
}

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126 Trio: A System for Integrated Management of Data, Accuracy, and Lineage 2005 CIDR 0.00030439683
311 Order Preserving Encryption for Numeric Data 2004 SIGMOD 0.00021327947
404 On the Complexity of Optimal K-Anonymity 2004 PODS 0.00019081867
1,872 Information Sharing Across Private Databases 2003 SIGMOD 9.4632771e-05
1,959 Limiting Disclosure in Hippocratic Databases 2004 VLDB 9.3126683e-05
2,151 Auditing Compliance with a Hippocratic Database 2004 VLDB 8.9521723e-05
2,399 Query Execution Assurance for Outsourced Databases 2005 VLDB 8.5216365e-05
2,861 LedgerDB: A Centralized Ledger Database for Universal Audit and Verification 2020 VLDB 7.932894e-05
3,247 On the Correctness Criteria of Fine-Grained Access Control in Relational Databases 2007 VLDB 7.4946402e-05
3,901 Automatic Enforcement of Data Use Policies with DataLawyer 2015 SIGMOD 6.9344377e-05
4,040 Epistemic Privacy 2008 PODS 6.8387308e-05
4,591 GhostDB: Querying Visible and Hidden Data Without Leaks 2007 SIGMOD 6.5138912e-05
4,973 Data Station: Delegated, Trustworthy, and Auditable Computation to Enable Data-Sharing Consortia with a Data Escrow 2022 VLDB 6.3318963e-05
5,835 PolicyReplay: Misconfiguration-Response Queries for Data Breach Reporting 2010 VLDB 5.9758831e-05
6,613 Chip-Secured Data Access: Reconciling Access Rights with Data Encryption 2003 VLDB 5.7344246e-05
7,091 PoneglyphDB: Efficient Non-interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Arbitrary SQL-Query Verification 2025 SIGMOD 5.601767e-05
7,207 Vision Paper: Enabling Privacy for the Paranoids 2004 VLDB 5.5848103e-05
7,404 Compliant Geo-distributed Query Processing 2021 SIGMOD 5.5357067e-05
7,647 Disclosure-Compliant Query Answering 2024 SIGMOD 5.4772833e-05
8,597 Sieve: A Middleware Approach to Scalable Access Control for Database Management Systems 2020 VLDB 5.305686e-05
9,378 Secure and Policy-Compliant Query Processing on Heterogeneous Computational Storage Architectures 2022 SIGMOD 5.1868213e-05
9,667 Preservation of Proximity Privacy in Publishing Numerical Sensitive Data 2008 SIGMOD 5.1453267e-05
10,025 Don’t Be a Tattle-Tale: Preventing Leakages through Data Dependencies on Access Control Protected Data 2022 VLDB 5.0934585e-05
12,508 The Case for Personal Data-Driven Decision Making 2014 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
12,514 Stop That Query! The Need for Managing Data Use 2013 CIDR 4.9793485e-05
12,515 Trusted Cells: A Sea Change for Personal Data Services 2013 CIDR 4.9793485e-05
12,539 The Power of Data Use Management in Action 2013 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
12,732 Pluggable Personal Data Servers 2010 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
12,751 Secure Personal Data Servers: a Vision Paper 2010 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
12,912 Beyond Just Data Privacy 2007 CIDR 4.9793485e-05
12,949 GhostDB: Hiding Data from Prying Eyes 2007 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
13,011 User Profile Management in Converged Networks (Episode II): "Share your data, Keep your secrets" 2005 CIDR 4.9793485e-05
13,078 An Electronic Patient Record "on Steroids": Distributed, Peer-to-Peer, Secure and Privacy-conscious 2004 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
13,080 A Multi-Purpose Implementation of Mandatory Access Control in Relational Database Management Systems 2004 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
13,099 Privacy in Data Systems 2003 PODS 4.9793485e-05
13,124 Privacy-Enhanced Data Management for Next-Generation e-Commerce 2003 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
14,204 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
95 Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System 2001 VLDB 0.00034382643
115 Executing SQL over Encrypted Data in the Database-Service-Provider Model 2002 SIGMOD 0.00031742473
204 Declarative Data Cleaning: Language, Model, and Algorithms 2001 VLDB 0.00025190386
260 Statistical Databases: Characteristics, Problems, and Some Solutions 1982 VLDB 0.00022880477
1,093 A study on the protection of statistical data bases 1977 SIGMOD 0.00012062558
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