Here's the new product: Oracle NoSQL. Gory tech details and downloadable open source community edition are here. I see no indication geospatial is supported natively.
The consensus of smart people (who know more about this than I) suggest Oracle's entry into the space is validation of the technology (including Mike Loukides at O'Reilly).
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has said that the company’s database strategy is to take new technologies and absorb them. Next up: Big data and NoSQL.
That from Larry Dignan at C|net who cites the event program to note a Hadoop loader and a NoSQL database (I did an intro at DM).
What are the implications for geospatial? We may find out next week.
- ZDNet Oracle Blog w/HT to @cageyjames
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/11 at 08:27 AM |
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New Zealand’s Powerco pretty much removed its Oracle instances in favor of Microsoft’s SQL Server. There were also changes in hardware, virtualization and a drop in the number of Citrix servers. The GIS moves over this week; hopefully after a user presentation at Tech Ed, we’ll learn more about how the company was using Oracle and how it’ll be using SQL Server for spatial data (or not). The company uses Televent Miner and Miner apps built on ESRI tech (source). The money saved: $390,000 a year.
Open source was not considered as the goal was to standardize to one system from a mixed Oracle/SQL Server solution.
- Computerworld NZ
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/14 at 06:00 AM |
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This week’s question: Is the spatial database a commodity? With all the big database players storing and querying spatial data and several open source offerings in the market, is spatial no longer special when in comes to the database world? Is it time to "stop getting excited" about the addition of spatial support and simply use the technology?
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by Adena Schutzberg on 06/09 at 01:00 AM |
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This week we look at geodata formats - what’s new, what’s needed, what’s working and what’s not. Among our topics: Google’s newly announced Map Data API, the Shapefile 2.0 Manifesto, SpatiaLite and the state of KML in the wild.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 04/14 at 01:00 AM |
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Oracle Spatial GeoRaster, the function within the Oracle’s Enterprise database edition to manage and query raster data, is now supported with an open source driver to export or import data in many formats, such as GRASS, GeoTIFF, IDRISI, etc. Geospatial Software Integration (GSI) wrote the GDAL driver, which, according to the company, can executve Map Algebra or other image processing query functions.
by Joe Francica on 03/09 at 07:57 AM |
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