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Raghav Kaushik

Dilli Dorai Minnal Arumugam

Steven Richard Gott

Nikolas Christopher Ogg

Nitish Gupta

Andreas Wolter

Yueren Wang

Pankaj Prabhakar Naik

Rakesh Khanduja

Shafi Ahmad

Methods for centralized access control for cloud relational database management system resources are performed by systems and devices. The methods utilize a central policy storage, managed externally to database servers, which stores external policies for access to internal database resources at up to fine granularity. Database servers in the processing system each receive external access policies that correspond to users of the system by push or pull operations from the central policy storage, and store the external access policies in a cache of the database servers for databases. For resource access, access conditions are determined via policy engines of database servers based on an external access policy in the cache that corresponds to a user, responsive to a resource access request from a device of the user specifying the internal resource. Data associated with the resource is provided to the user based on the access condition being met.

Centralized access control for cloud relational database management system resources

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