Issues in distributed database security

Abstract

The requirements for multilevel security have been shown to conflict with some database integrity and consistency properties. The authors examine the data consistency requirements for a distributed database system, consider the effects of multilevel security on meeting those requirements, and consider architecture for achieving them. They discuss the problem of providing serializability in a single-site database system and propose a solution based on optimistic concurrency control. They then extend this solution to a distributed database system. They also describe an approach for weak consistency concurrency control in a distributed database system based on the Optimistic Protocol.<>