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Big Data In The Browser

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

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The Future of Postgres Data Processing

Today if I had data in a post-GIS database, for example, it's in one format in the database. If you read that into JavaScript, JavaScript is going to load it into its own in-memory representation of those numbers and strings. The idea with something like Arrow is that instead of sending numbers and strings,. having to say Postgres thinks the number in string looks like this. You just send this set of bytes that goes from one set system to the next. Both systems understand how to read that set ofbytes without having to reinterpret it into a native memory format. They can just say, I know how to look into this byte and find the number within.

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