[OSM-dev] OSM and CouchDB/GeoCouch

[Nolan Darilek]

On 07/03/2010 01:09 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> On 07/02/2010 01:52 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
>> Similarly, Ian Dees and I have written a server using MongoDB, which
>> also provides functionality such as auto-sharding and built in
>> map/reduce.
>>
>
> Is this work available anywhere? How did you find performance to be, 
> and to what uses did you put it?
>
> I've done some experiments creating a LibOSM MongoDB backend and found 
> its performance fairly bad, but I don't have the most optimal server 
> for it, and probably didn't use MongoDB to its limits. If you 
> experienced good performance for real-time operations then I'd be very 
> interested in seeing how you managed it so I might adopt the 
> techniques and see if I have any better luck.
>
> It seemed to me that a dump of the entire planet would require a 
> substantial server to serve up, so I abandoned the work, but would 
> very much like to revive it if it's at all workable.