Using Multi Shares for Ensuring Privacy in Database-as-a-Service

Database-as-a-service (DAAS) is a new model for data management, where a service provider offers customers software management functionalities as well as the use of expensive hardware. This service enables data integration and access on a large scale in cloud computing infrastructures. Addressing data privacy in DAAS is considered a significant issue for any organizational database. Due to the fact that data will be shared with a third party, an un-trusted server is dangerous and unsafe for the user. This paper proposes the architecture of a new model appropriate for NetDB2 architecture, known as NetDB2 Multi-Shares (NetDB2-MS). It is based on multi-service providers and a secret sharing algorithm instead of encryption, which is used by the existing NetDB2 service. The evaluation is done through simulations. It shows a significant improvement in performance for data storage and retrieval for various query types.