On 15.12.2012, at 14:18, Ander Pijoan wrote: 
> This is a good point. I know more or less how PostGIS works and how I should 
> structure the query.
>  
> My question was more related to fastness. The type of queries will just be 
> some "geoNear" queries, just to get all the points within a bounding box that 
> match certain value.

Check out the nearest neighbor search feature of PostGIS 2.0. See: 
http://workshops.opengeo.org/postgis-intro/knn.html

> I know that PostGIS is a better GIS and provides far more features, but just 
> for geoNear queries and taking into account that MongoDB (for what I've been 
> reading) is supposed to be more web-scalable and easier to export to JSON I 
> think I will try booth.

Webscale. Nice.

Do you have any numbers for your requirements? Like the number of queries per 
second and the number of records in your database?

Regards,
Oliver


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