Paper Info
Title
Data desensitization of customer data for use in optimizer performance experiments
Abstract
Improving the performance and functionality of database system optimizers requires experimentation on real customer data. Often these data are of sensitive nature and the only way to keep them is by applying a non-reversible transformation to obfuscate them. However, in order that the database optimizer generates exactly the same query plans as for the sensitive data, the transformation has to preserve the order and some important properties of the data distribution. Unfortunately, existing data obfuscation techniques do not preserve all of these properties and therefore are not applicable in this context. In this paper we present a Desensitizer tool that we have developed for optimizer performance experiments of HP's Neoview high availability data warehousing product. The tool is based on novel numeric and string desensitization algorithms which are agnostic to the database system. We explain the core concepts behind the algorithms, how they preserve the required data properties and important implementation considerations that were made. We present the architecture of the Desensitizer tool and results of the extensive validation that we conducted.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ICDE.2010.5447793
ICDE
Keywords
Field
DocType
data handling,data warehouses,customer data,data desensitization,data obfuscation techniques,data warehousing product,database system optimizers,desensitizer tool,nonreversible transformation,optimizer performance,query plans
Data warehouse,Data mining,Architecture,Algorithm design,Computer science,Encryption,Obfuscation,High availability,Group method of data handling,Database
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1084-4627
7
0.58
References 
Authors
2
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Malú Castellanos135174.33
Bin Zhang270.58
Ivo Jimenez3214.03
Perla Ruiz491.31
Miguel Durazo5141.07
Umeshwar Dayal684522538.92
Lily Jow770.58