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

[Paul Ramsey]

On Feb 21, 2008, at 4:19 PM, Bruce.Bannerman at dpi.vic.gov.au wrote:
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> 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.)

P.