[postgis-users] PostGIS verse those in Azure Cloud

[Shaozhong SHI]

Is there an outline of the underlying technology each system of Azure Cloud
offers?

Perhaps, we can compare that way?

Regards,

David

On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 14:17, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

> Are you right about what?
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> I still think you need to focus on what exactly you are trying to compare
> and for who.
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> You are trying to compare apples and oranges is all I see.
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> I don’t think you will find any single review about Azure cloud geospatial
> offerings, cause it’s a huge landscape.
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> You need to pinpoint more what problem you are trying to solve and who is
> tasked to solve them.
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> You need to define exactly what set of Azure geospatial technologies you
> are talking about.
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> *From:* postgis-users <postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Shaozhong SHI
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 30, 2023 8:31 AM
> *To:* PostGIS Users Discussion <postgis-users at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS verse those in Azure Cloud
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> I am trying to review the underlying geospatial capability of these
> systems as the geospatial capability maturity have been developed
> unevenly.  I am interested in the following:
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> As compared with PostGIS spatial operations, what are the advantages and
> disadvantages of various systems in Azure Cloud in terms of supporting
> further development.
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> In my mind and from my experience, PostGIS has a lot of useful underlying
> functions that support development of other applications.
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> My initial glance of what other systems offer in the Azure, the potential
> for this is not great.
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> I would like to find information on this and confirm or reject this
> understanding.
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> Secondary programming/development relies on what the underlying
> functionality of a system provides.   Add-on development is based on the
> underlying technology offered.  From my experience, PostGIS offers a
> versatile range of functions and capability.  This is important to any
> other add-on development for forming robust and useful geospatial
> applications.
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> Am I right?
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> Regards,
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> David
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> On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 01:31, David Haynes <haynesd2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Suprio Ray and Ahmed Eldway are two researchers that do a lot of spatial
> computation work on big data (Hadoop, Spark, and parallel computation
> frameworks). In my opinion, PostGIS is a more robust tool for spatial
> operations. However other tools and platforms can be very good for specific
> spatial operations.
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> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023, 12:40 PM Shaozhong SHI <shishaozhong at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Geospatial capability has varied maturity in different systems, particular
> of interest is those in Azure Cloud as compared to PostGIS.
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> Is there any publication on this topic?
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> Regards,
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> David
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