Architectural impact on performance of a multilevel database system

Author

Kang, Myong H. ; Froscher, Judith N. ; Mukkamala, Raui

Author_Institution

Div. of Inf. Technol., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

5-9 Dec 1994

Firstpage

76

Lastpage

85

Abstract

Since protection and assurance are the primary concerns in multilevel secure (MLS) databases, performance has often been sacrificed in some known MLS database approaches. Motivated by performance concerns, a replicated architecture approach which uses a physically distinct back-end database management system for each security level is being investigated. This is a report on the behavior and performance issues for the replicated architecture approach. Especially, we compare the performance of the SINTRA (Secure INformation Through Replicated Architecture) MLS database system to that of a typical conventional (non-secure, single-level) database system. After observing the performance bottlenecks for SINTRA, we present solutions that can alleviate them

Keywords

replicated databases; security of data; software performance evaluation; SINTRA; assurance; multilevel secure databases; nonsecure single-level database system; performance bottlenecks; physically distinct back-end database management system; protection; replicated architecture; security level; Computer architecture; Cryptography; Data security; Database systems; Information security; Information technology; Laboratories; Multilevel systems; Protection; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Security Applications Conference, 1994. Proceedings., 10th Annual

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6795-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSAC.1994.367319

Filename

367319