[cap-talk] capability-enabled spatial databases

[Bill Frantz]

kpreid at mac.com (Kevin Reid) on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 wrote:

>On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:41, John Carlson wrote:
>
>> Would a typical spatial extension of SQL w/ SSL/TLS/PKI qualify to  
>> be a capability protocol, if it used swiss numbers for point,  
>> polygon, object, collection and class information and you couldn't  
>> manipulate the database (CRUD) without using a swiss number  
>> (specifying a single thing)?
>
>Would whoever it was from 2009-04-17's friam discussion that said that  
>capabilites and (relational?) databases have useful but irreconcilable  
>properties please expand upon it in this context?

I think you are thinking of Chip's statement to the effect that Object and
Relational database both have useful properties, but are irreconcilable. (I
chimed in with a comment to the effect that the same comment applies to
floating point and integer numbers.)

I can't think of anything fundamental preventing you from using
capabilities to authorize access to views in a relational database. (My
ignorance of database terminology is showing, or I would give more
examples.)

Cheers - Bill

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