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

[Fawcett, David]

>> - Some of the biggest advantages though, come from the corporate IT
>> support that you come to rely on, e.g. regular backups, large disk 
>> capacity on fast SAN devices, secure access to data by authorised 
>> custodians, redundant databases for disaster recovery, point in time 
>> restoration of data etc.

>But there is no difference whether you back up files or a database.
Well, actually there is a         >difference. Backing up files is a lot
easier, more robust and much much better scalable than cramming
>everything into one or even several databases and trying to replicate
that once it needs to be scaled >up.

It is a little ironic that their Secret Sauce Du Jour, Map Caching, is
just pre-rendering the images and storing them on the file system.  ; /