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GIS Databases for Big Data

dkakkar edited this page Jan 29, 2020 · 1 revision
  • PostGreSQL: Powerful, open source object-relational database system
  • PostGIS: Provides spatial objects for the PostgreSQL database, allowing storage and query of information about location and mapping
  • OmniSci:
    • Designed to overcome the scalability and performance limitations of legacy analytics tools
    • Super fast queries/analytics (including machine learning) of unindexed data (open source)
    • Super fast interactive rendering (free for educational use) of millions or billions of features, on-the-fly on a map
    • Leverages the massively parallel processing of GPUs alongside traditional CPU compute