Would Object-Oriented Databases Improve Information Assurance?
Posted by Tom Fuller in Uncategorized at June 11th, 2007
If we were able to perform useful work by dealing with classes of data described in object oriented databases, would more people be able to work with the databases without having access to the data warehoused within?
I would love to get some opinions on this.
June 12th, 2007 at 6:29 am
I think this is otherwise known as basic system design.
June 14th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Sorry, but “no”.
Object oriented databases have little impact on useability or security. Relational databases employ a well-recognised paradigm of tables and rows. Millions of spreadsheet users find this a perfectly natural way to use data. This class of user easily might find object orientation opaque.
As for security of access and permissions to use particular data, this is almost wholly independent of database architecture. It is, as the earlier respondent says, of system design. It is also an aspect of database administration, which is specific to particular database implementation.