# Exploiting Information-centric Networking to Federate Spatial Databases

## TL;DR

This paper investigates how information-centric networking (ICN) can be used to federate spatial databases, enhancing design simplicity, performance, and security through a novel architecture tested on real-world OpenStreetMap data.

## Contribution

It introduces a new architecture for federating spatial databases using ICN, demonstrating its effectiveness with real data and heterogeneous database systems.

## Key findings

- Improved federation performance with ICN
- Enhanced data-centric security features
- Effective integration of MongoDB and CouchBase for spatial data

## Abstract

This paper explores the methodologies, challenges, and expected advantages related to the use of the information-centric network (ICN) technology for federating spatial databases. ICN services allow simplifying the design of federation procedures, improving their performance, and providing so-called data-centric security. In this work, we present an architecture that is able to federate spatial databases and evaluate its performance using a real data set coming from OpenStreetMap within a heterogeneous federation formed by MongoDB and CouchBase spatial database systems.