Re: Multi-Dimensional Rasters - Large Datasets

From: Kendall <kendallwillets_at_yahooooooooooooo.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:34:30 -0700
Message-ID: <uel4pmi9kerh29_at_news.supernews.com>


In article <541e251e.0205201131.4c23c8d9_at_posting.google.com>, "Seth Northrop" <seth_at_northrops.com> wrote:

There's a company called queryobject (.com) which produces a compression engine for multidimensional datasets. I have no idea if it's suitable for your data, but it's interesting.

It sounds like a multidimensional database might be what you need. This type of DB puts the data into an array layout instead of a keyed lookup structure like most RDBMS's. Since your array is dense and rectangular it should work well and eliminate a lot of overhead.

GIS systems are more optimized for sparse, randomly distributed data in 2 or 3 dimensions. Received on Tue May 21 2002 - 20:34:30 CEST

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