[OSGeo-Discuss] Image Management in an RDBMS...(was OS Spatial environment 'sizing')

Tim Bowden tim.bowden at westnet.com.au
Thu Feb 21 19:45:23 EST 2008


On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 16:24 -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2008, at 4:19 PM, Bruce.Bannerman at dpi.vic.gov.au wrote:
> >
> > What it comes down to is what is appropriate for your use case.
> 
> Indeed! However, there seem to be vanishingly few use cases for which  
> raster-in-database is actually the more appropriate solution.
> 
> (BTW, point-in-time recovery, a nice example of a place where database  
> semantics have an upper hand.  Although more modern file systems and  
> enterprise backup systems are pretty competitive now... even a  
> relatively simple hack like the OS/X Time Machine feature solves that  
> problem for-all-practical-purposes.)

Completely off the wall thought, but what about using git?

Tim

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