SHAMC: A Secure and highly available database system in multi-cloud environment

摘要

Data owners outsource their databases into the cloud to enjoy the quality services provided by the cloud service providers. However, using cloud database makes the private data vulnerable and exposed to the attackers including malicious insiders. Many researchers try to find the way to encrypt the cloud database and execute queries securely on the ciphertext. In this paper, we propose a secure and highly available cloud database system in the multi-cloud named SHAMC. Specifically, we use the idea of secure multiparty computation and homomorphic encryption to store data and execute queries direct on the ciphertext. Besides, the entire database is stored in multiple clouds to avoid service interruption as well as solve the problems of permanent failure and vendor lock-in. We implement the prototype of SHAMC which supports all queries in TPC Benchmark™ H (TPC-H) on the top of the commercial cloud. SHAMC is proved to be highly available and cost-efficient. The evaluation shows it has an acceptable query overhead which is superior to other encrypted cloud databases.