Raising Authorization Awareness in a DBMS

Summary: Argues FGA should be a first-class DBMS concern rather than a query-rewriting afterthought, enabling authorization-aware core components for better performance. Proposes a novel authorization index and shows how an optimizer can exploit it to generate significantly better plans and reframe query-processing design. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h25975dc3fbd4470e
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank: 12,386 | 16.73%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Abhijeet Mohapatra (Stanford University)
2. Ravi Ramamurthy (Microsoft)
3. Raghav Kaushik (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{mohapatra_cidr15,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '15},
        title = {{Raising Authorization Awareness in a DBMS}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Mohapatra, Abhijeet and Ramamurthy, Ravi and Kaushik, Raghav},
        year = {2015}
}

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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
107	Improved Query Performance with Variant Indexes	1997	SIGMOD	0.00033460288
310	Optimization of Real Conjunctive Queries	1993	PODS	0.00021374145
388	Incremental Maintenance of Views with Duplicates	1995	SIGMOD	0.00019350381
553	Optimizing Queries Using Materialized Views: A Practical, Scalable Solution	2001	SIGMOD	0.0001652591
568	Extending Query Rewriting Techniques for Fine-Grained Access Control	2004	SIGMOD	0.00016262553
898	Orthogonal Security With Cipherbase	2013	CIDR	0.00013189879
3,247	On the Correctness Criteria of Fine-Grained Access Control in Relational Databases	2007	VLDB	7.4946402e-05
9,055	Redundancy and Information Leakage in Fine-Grained Access Control	2006	SIGMOD	5.2302772e-05

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