[Tile-serving] First beta release of new OSM data storage for tile servers

[Paul Norman]

On 3/17/2015 2:58 AM, Robert Buchholz wrote:
> This version is yet incomplete (e.g. it handles only OSM ways, no 
> relations or individual nodes), but can already be used as a 
> replacement for Postgres in the OSM render toolchain (demo tile 
> server: http://render.rbuch703.de ; yes, the map style sucks :-) ). 
> Performance comparisons to Postgres are difficult as COORDS is still 
> incomplete, but initial tests look promising: on a 2.4 GHz server with 
> 32GB RAM and HDD-based storage, the import of a planet dump takes only 
> about six hours (Postgres via osm2pgsql takes more than 72h on the 
> same hardware), and rendering the level 3 metatile containing all the 
> world's railway tracks and major roads in the demo map style takes 
> less than a minute.

How efficient is it at updates? If not dealing with updates or relations 
osm2pgsql takes roughly comparable time to import on HDDs.