[pdal] Proposal: Remove SQLite reader/writer for PDAL 2.0

[Andrew Bell]

I don't know if it's helpful, but PLY and PCD both support binary encoding
of any set of dimensions.

On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 3:26 PM Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:

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> > On Aug 1, 2019, at 2:09 PM, Jed Frechette <jedfrechette at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 12:32 PM Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:
> >> I think TileDB is a better choice for this task at the moment than
> SQLite with the upcoming PDAL 2.0 release. Norman Barker is supporting it
> through PDAL's support venues, and I believe his firm is available for paid
> support opportunities. It is going to perform much better and it supports
> streaming. The SQLite drivers were a proof of concept that I developed
> based on our experience with both the Oracle and pgpointcloud drivers, and
> while it is interesting for database storage of point clouds, it has some
> significant downsides.
> >
> > Thanks for the good advice. I had looked in to TileDB and it seems
> > really interesting but given how general it is I wasn't sure how well
> > the implementation played with PDAL. It's good to hear that it is at
> > least a candidate for a nativeish container format.
>
> Numpy is also a candidate. We don't have a writers.numpy, but all the code
> to do so is in the Python extension. You could then save npz files and
> transit your data that way. Happy to merge a patch on it, but it won't make
> the 2.0 release cutoff.
>
> Howard
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