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Distributing Geospatial Data

The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

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Apache Sordona: A Database Management System

When we talk about databases, what are you talking about? This is also a great question. A database like a post GIS, which is, again, an extension to Postgres, is a database management system. The data is stored in a database, in a bunch of tables, and it's persisted somewhere on disk. That's the typical notion of a database. Apache Sordona is not a database. It can load data from a database to run computation on it. When you can run a spatial SQL, all the compute and the data are processing the same server pretty much. While in Sordona, Sordonais just a compute engine that can integrate with all these

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