GnatDb: A Small-Footprint, Secure Database System

Summary: GnatDb: a small-footprint embedded DB protecting against accidental and malicious data corruption on constrained appliances. Uses atomic, durable updates and cryptographic protections with a log-structured storage model; memory under 11 KB, performance acceptable. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hef0092e7531c1d77
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2002
Pagerank: 8.1222814e-05
Overall Rank: 2,694 | 81.89%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50087-1

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Radek Vingralek (InterTrust Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@article{vingralek_vldb02,
        title = {{GnatDb: A Small-Footprint, Secure Database System}},
        author = {Vingralek, Radek},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '02},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50087-1},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50087-1},
        year = {2002}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
311	Order Preserving Encryption for Numeric Data	2004	SIGMOD	0.00021327947
4,591	GhostDB: Querying Visible and Hidden Data Without Leaks	2007	SIGMOD	6.5138912e-05
6,612	Safe Data Sharing and Data Dissemination on Smart Devices	2005	SIGMOD	5.7344246e-05
9,104	Client-Based Access Control Management for XML documents	2004	VLDB	5.2283159e-05
12,949	GhostDB: Hiding Data from Prying Eyes	2007	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,934	PicoDBMS: Scaling down Database Techniques for the Smartcard	2000	VLDB	9.3451109e-05

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