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- Single global identifier: large flat namespace with all objects for all applications in the same namespace.
- Too unstructured; leaves too many problems to be solved by higher-level software, doesn't provide enough hooks for management.
- For example, need to be able to delete all data associated with an application.
- Need to associate access control information with every object.
- Result: system will have to create additional structures for this extra information; why not just design those structures in from the beginning?
- Are there any advantages to this approach?
- Hierarchical name, such as (application id) + (table id) + (record id).
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