[Live-demo] Re-categorising OSGeo-Live projects

[Peter Baumann]

I'm completely on board about MapServer - actually, in my classification 
sketched below it is a service indeed, whereas DBMSs form another category of 
services. BTW, MapServer is not a Web server either - it needs Apache or similar 
to run. But it offers WCS, just like rasdaman (a DBMS) does, for example.
Both categories, whether filebased or using databases, serve data over the Web 
in the end, and both offer overlapping services (such as WMS, WCS); the 
difference is the paradigm of management.

cheers,
Peter


On 12/16/2012 07:05 PM, Stefan Steiniger wrote:
> well, but I would not count MapServer as a DBMS,
> If a DBMS has service functions and supports services, then so be it, but it 
> still is a DBMS and not a Web-Server... or? I.e. one is to manage data and the 
> other is to serve data over the internet. maybe?
>
> Am 16.12.12 17:44, schrieb Peter Baumann:
>> Cameron-
>>
>> sorry for the silence, just now I can come back on this again.
>>
>>  From a client perspective, we share WCS support; the differentiating
>> criterion I see as follows (EOX, please correct if necessary):
>> - EOxServer's main mission is EO-WCS, and it also supports WCS;
>> - rasdaman's main mission is WCPS, and it also supports WCS (being
>> candidate reference implementation for WCS Core).
>>
>> Now we have 2 categories, "services" and "data stores", which clearly
>> overlap - essentially, any DBMS is a potential service as well. Also,
>> both file-based and DBMS-based stores offer OGC services, so again a
>> difficult distinction. Finally, the "Web Services" also store their data
>> somehow :) so "Storing spatial data"this is not a clear criterion either.
>>
>> Hence, a suggestion: introduce 2 service categories (I think service is
>> a main aspect of this whole category):
>> - file-based services
>>      MapServer -- as an example
>> - database-backed services
>>      rasdaman -- multi-dimensional raster database offering OGC WMS,
>> WCS, WCS-T, WCPS, and WPS
>>
>> Just some thought,
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/12/2012 11:04 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>> Peter,
>>> Coming back to this question of categorisation. It seems that
>>> EOxServer is similar to Rasdaman, and probably should be listed next
>>> to it? Is that reasonable?
>>>
>>> If so, should both EOxServer and Rasdaman be categorised under "Data
>>> Stores" or under Web Services?
>>>
>>> To make that decision, I'd consider how people are most likely to
>>> access each application. If it is via a Web Service, then I'd err
>>> toward a Web Service categorisation.
>>>
>>> On 10/12/12 07:14, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>>>> I agree with Peter: rasdaman is better categorized under DBMS.  OGC
>>>> web services are extra functionality in rasdaman.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Angelos
>>>>
>>>> On 12/09/2012 09:34 PM, Peter Baumann wrote:
>>>>> Cameron-
>>>>>
>>>>> re rasdaman, it is a DBMS indeed, in the same category as PostGIS.
>>>>> For example, rasdaman comes with a multi-dimensional spatio-temporal
>>>>> query language; in terms of OGC standards, WCS is just one rather
>>>>> limited functionality, there's also WMS, WCPS, and WPS.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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