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# ClickHouse obfuscator
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Simple tool for table data obfuscation.
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It reads input table and produces output table, that retain some properties of input, but contains different data.
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It allows to publish almost real production data for usage in benchmarks.
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It is designed to retain the following properties of data:
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- cardinalities of values (number of distinct values) for every column and for every tuple of columns;
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- conditional cardinalities: number of distinct values of one column under condition on value of another column;
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- probability distributions of absolute value of integers; sign of signed integers; exponent and sign for floats;
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- probability distributions of length of strings;
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- probability of zero values of numbers; empty strings and arrays, NULLs;
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- data compression ratio when compressed with LZ77 and entropy family of codecs;
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- continuity (magnitude of difference) of time values across table; continuity of floating point values.
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- date component of DateTime values;
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- UTF-8 validity of string values;
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- string values continue to look somewhat natural.
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Most of the properties above are viable for performance testing:
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reading data, filtering, aggregation and sorting will work at almost the same speed
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as on original data due to saved cardinalities, magnitudes, compression ratios, etc.
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It works in deterministic fashion: you define a seed value and transform is totally determined by input data and by seed.
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Some transforms are one to one and could be reversed, so you need to have large enough seed and keep it in secret.
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It use some cryptographic primitives to transform data, but from the cryptographic point of view,
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It doesn't do anything properly and you should never consider the result as secure, unless you have other reasons for it.
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It may retain some data you don't want to publish.
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It always leave numbers 0, 1, -1 as is. Also it leaves dates, lengths of arrays and null flags exactly as in source data.
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For example, you have a column IsMobile in your table with values 0 and 1. In transformed data, it will have the same value.
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So, the user will be able to count exact ratio of mobile traffic.
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Another example, suppose you have some private data in your table, like user email and you don't want to publish any single email address.
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If your table is large enough and contain multiple different emails and there is no email that have very high frequency than all others,
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It will perfectly anonymize all data. But if you have small amount of different values in a column, it can possibly reproduce some of them.
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And you should take care and look at exact algorithm, how this tool works, and probably fine tune some of it command line parameters.
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This tool works fine only with reasonable amount of data (at least 1000s of rows).
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