This paper explores methodologies, advantages and challenges related to the use of the Information Centric Network technology for developing NoSQL distributed databases, which are expected to play a central role in the forthcoming IoT and BigData era. ICN services make possible to simplify the development of the database software, improve performance, and provide data-level access control. We use our findings to design a NoSQL spatio-temporal database, named OpenGeoBase, and evaluate its performance by using a real data set relevant to Intelligent Transport System applications. © 2017 IEEE.