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
