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: h43fb92aa34b0bde2
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 8.9521723e-05
Overall Rank: 2,151 | 85.54%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50047-4

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Authors

1. Rakesh Agrawal (IBM)
2. Roberto Bayardo (IBM)
3. Christos Faloutsos (IBM)
4. Jerry Kiernan (IBM)
5. Ralf Rantzau (IBM)
6. Ramakrishnan Srikant (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@article{agrawal_vldb04,
        title = {{Auditing Compliance with a Hippocratic Database}},
        author = {Agrawal, Rakesh and Bayardo, Roberto and Faloutsos, Christos and Kiernan, Jerry and Rantzau, Ralf and Srikant, Ramakrishnan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        pages = {516},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50047-4},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50047-4},
        year = {2004}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,861	LedgerDB: A Centralized Ledger Database for Universal Audit and Verification	2020	VLDB	7.932894e-05
3,149	Explanation-Based Auditing	2012	VLDB	7.5920152e-05
3,359	Towards Robustness in Query Auditing	2006	VLDB	7.3781883e-05
4,040	Epistemic Privacy	2008	PODS	6.8387308e-05
5,835	PolicyReplay: Misconfiguration-Response Queries for Data Breach Reporting	2010	VLDB	5.9758831e-05
6,683	Impliance: A Next Generation Information Management Appliance	2007	CIDR	5.7087013e-05
6,838	Efficient Auditing For Complex SQL queries	2011	SIGMOD	5.6678362e-05
7,404	Compliant Geo-distributed Query Processing	2021	SIGMOD	5.5357067e-05
7,647	Disclosure-Compliant Query Answering	2024	SIGMOD	5.4772833e-05
8,956	Auditing Disclosure by Relevance Ranking	2007	SIGMOD	5.2509795e-05
9,404	Enabling Personal Consent in Databases	2022	VLDB	5.1828865e-05
12,514	Stop That Query! The Need for Managing Data Use	2013	CIDR	4.9793485e-05
12,582	On Scaling Up Sensitive Data Auditing	2013	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,682	Whodunit: An Auditing Tool for Detecting Data Breaches	2011	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
25	NiagaraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases	2000	SIGMOD	0.00053930011
109	Extensible/Rule Based Query Rewrite Optimization in Starburst	1992	SIGMOD	0.0003276959
411	Hippocratic Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00018699914
1,959	Limiting Disclosure in Hippocratic Databases	2004	VLDB	9.3126683e-05

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