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This section covers high-level data architecture principles of MOSIP.

  • Open source and Vendor Neutral
  • Adaptability
  • Security
  • Multi party
  • Authorization
  • Authentication
  • Multi language support
  • Performance and scalability
  • High Availability
  • Auditability

Open Source and Vendor Neutral

To handle vendor neutrality and open source, the following consideration are followed while designing the data model and the database design.

  • No business logic is applied at database level: Database will be used only to store and retrieve data. There is no business logic applied at database level other than Primary / Unique key, Not null and foreign keys. Foreign keys are applied within the same database, if a table is referenced in another database then no FK is applied.

  • No specific database features to be used: Features that are common across databases which are compliant with open source standards are applied.

  • All DDL, DML and DQL statements will follow ANSI standards

  • Metadata approach to handle complex and flexible data structures

  • Only following datatypes are being used

    • Character varying
    • Timestamp
    • Date
    • Integer
    • Number
    • Bytea/blob
    • Boolean

Adaptability

TBD

Security

TBD

Multi party

TBD

Authorization

TBD

Authentication

TBD

Multi-Language

MOSIP platform is being built for multiple countries, there is a need to support multiple languages. So as per the requirements, MOSIP will support 3 languages as configured by the country level administrator. Multi language support is needed for the following datasets.

  • Master Data
  • ID data of an individual
  • Transaction comments
  • Labels used in UI
  • Messages and notifications

From database side, the data will support UTF-8 Unicode character set to store data entered in multiple languages. There will not be any in-built support to translate data at database level. Any translation or transliteration will be handled at API or UI layer.

High Availability

TBD

Auditability

TBD

High Performance

To support high performance, following database design features are to be considered

  • Database sharding is applied on uin dataset. By default, base sharding algorithm will be applied in MOSIP system. SI can define the sharding algorithm based on the deployment setup
  • All tables will have a primary key index on the primary key field. This will help in faster retrievals and joins
  • All foreign keys will have indexes defined so that it will help in faster joins
  • No referential integrity is applied on tables across databases
  • Partitioning: Partitioning design to be discussed as PostgreSQL has certain limitation / different way of implementation that requires specific database features to be applied. To be discussed further to finalize the implementation of this feature.