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<div>Sorry to bother, but i think we need a mentor for the idea to have GDAL support MongoDB.</div>
<div><a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/SummerOfCode" target="_blank">http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/SummerOfCode</a></div>
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<div>I noticed that GDAL has a CouchDB driver which is a good start to have GDAL powered by NoSQL Database Technologies. However, I think GDAL community should pay attention to MongoDB as well. </div>
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<div>MongoDB, which has native support for maintaining geospatial data, using a document-oriented model, lies in fifth place in the DB-Engines Ranking (http://db-engines.com/en/ranking) of database management systems classed according to popularity and the
highest rated non-relational system. From version 2.4 (released on March 19, 2013), MongoDB introduces Geohash indexes support for a subset of GeoJSON geometries including basic shapes like points, linestrings, polygons. And quite a number of partners related
with big data, NoSQL, cloud, mobile and high performance computing join the MongoDB ecosystem. </div>
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<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(246, 246, 246); word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><font face="Tahoma">I spent several years developing parallel geo-algorithms to tackle some geo-problems on the high performance computing platform, and had a burning feelings that we need a powerful and distributed spatial database to cooperate with the hpc environment running </font></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; white-space: normal; font-size: 10pt;">on the large scale Linux cluster</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; white-space: normal; font-size: 10pt;">. Unfortunately we don't have much choices in the GIS fields. </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; white-space: normal; font-size: 10pt;"> MongoDB and CouchDB may be a good ground to start with. </span></pre>
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<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(246, 246, 246); word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; white-space: normal;">Perhaps, we should make GDAL </span><font face="Tahoma"><span style="white-space: normal;">spinning on MongoDB platform </span></font><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; white-space: normal;">simply because it will prevent us from re-invent the wheel and get lots of GIS tools reusable to deal with the geo-info maintain in the NoSQL database, and </span><font face="Tahoma"><span style="white-space: normal;">enable the Open Source GIS Ecosystem powered by the advanced NoSQL database since GDAL servers as the foundation. </span></font></pre>
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