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Dear devs,<br>
<br>
I've been tasked to improve or rewrite the current rasdaman driver
implementation as it currently suffers a number of drawbacks:<br>
<ul>
<li>it is quite slow (compared to other drivers and other rasdaman
connection techiques)</li>
<li>it does not support creation of new rasters within the
database</li>
<li>it does not support write access to existing rasters within
the database</li>
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I think the bad performance of the current implementation is due to
the use of the `IReadBlock` function of the `RasdamanRasterBand`, as
for every block that is read, a connection/transaction to the
database is created and the block is transmitted. My assumption here
is that reading the raster as a whole (or parts thereof) via
`IRasterIO` (probably on the Dataset itself and not on the
RasterBand) would improve the performance as the number of required
connections and synchronization is reduced.<br>
As far as I can tell, that is the approach with the PostGISRaster
driver.<br>
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What are your opinions to that matter? What benefits would I miss if
I neglect block-based IO?<br>
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Regards,<br>
Fabian<br>
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