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Ruhollah A Farchtchi
dblp:385/5795
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Query processing and optimization · 100% | |
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Authentication and access control · 100% | |
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
Cloud and datacenter computing · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Query processing and optimization › query optimization › transformation-based optimization
query plan rewrite |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Membrane - Safe and Performant Data Access Controls in Apache Spark in the Presence of Imperative Code · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2024 |
Authentication and access control › access control
data access control |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Membrane - Safe and Performant Data Access Controls in Apache Spark in the Presence of Imperative Code · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2024 |
Cloud and datacenter computing › serverless computing
serverless analytics |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Membrane - Safe and Performant Data Access Controls in Apache Spark in the Presence of Imperative Code · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
query plan rewriting · 2.3container isolation · 2.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Membrane - Safe and Performant Data Access Controls in Apache Spark in the Presence of Imperative CodeabstractData Governance is an increasingly critical feature of modern cloud database systems, enabling administrators to set granular access policies on their data. AWS customers want to define row or column filtering on their blob storage data and access it using popular tools such as Apache Spark. AWS EMR provides a managed and serverless solution that lets users run Spark jobs in the AWS cloud with imperative and declarative programming against their data, while securely enforcing the fine-grained access controls defined on those datasets. Spark runs its compiler and scheduler alongside the user application and embeds user-defined functions in query plans, giving a threat actor direct access to its memory space. This introduces attack vectors such as information disclosure or privilege escalation during policy enforcement, in addition to well-researched threats such as SQL side channel attacks. In this paper, we present Membrane: a novel approach to secure query plans with declarative and imperative code. The innovation comes from splitting the Spark driver in two in order to rewrite query plans with security boundaries while avoiding traditional tradeoffs when using container isolation techniques. The approach described herein enables applying fine grained data access controls to both SQL and map-reduce Spark jobs, with negligible performance and cost differences. Andrei Paduroiu, Sungheun Wi, Roni Burd, Ruhollah A Farchtchi, Giovanni Matteo Fumarola |
Proc. VLDB Endow. | 5 |