[gdal-dev] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Any one is interested in the support of GDAL for MongoDB?

[Dmitriy Baryshnikov]

Hi Even,

I plan to mentor Geography Network support, but I can co-mentor one of 
such interesting projects:
- OGR Driver for MongoDB
- Bring up to speed the OGR style support for GDAL
- Implement write support for the PostGIS Raster GDAL driver

Best regards,
     Dmitry

19.03.2014 19:02, Even Rouault пишет:
> Fowarding to gdal-dev where this might raise more interest.
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> Sujet : [OSGeo-Discuss] Any one is interested in the support of GDAL for
> MongoDB?
> Date : mercredi 19 mars 2014, 15:25:46
> De : "Zhang, Shuai" <shuai at illinois.edu>
> À : OSGeo Google Summer of Code list <soc at lists.osgeo.org>, OSGeo Discuss list
> <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>, OSGeo Education List <edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org>,
> ICA OSGeo Labs list <ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
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> Hi All,
>
> Sorry to bother, but i think we need a mentor for the idea to have GDAL
> support MongoDB.
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/SummerOfCode
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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 on the large scale Linux cluster.
> Unfortunately we don't have much choices in the GIS fields.  MongoDB and
> CouchDB may be a good ground to start with.
>
>
> Perhaps, we should make GDAL spinning on MongoDB platform 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 enable the Open
> Source GIS Ecosystem powered by the advanced NoSQL database since GDAL servers
> as the foundation.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> shuai
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