Well, there are actually three places that data may be stored for a GeoNode site - there's a database that the Django frontend uses to store all of the data that it uses, storage for the GeoServer data and configuration, and storage for the GeoNetwork CSW application. While GeoServer can access data stored in various databases, the metadata (title, style, etc.) must be stored on the filesystem. Additionally, GeoNode currently can't use Postgres to store uploaded data, so layers configured through the GeoNode upload form will be Shapefiles/GeoTIFFs (also stored on the file system.)
For GeoNetwork and the Django-based frontend, the database in use is just a matter of configuration. I would recommend using PostgresQL for these. We hope to allow the upload form to import to PostgresQL in the future, so this would simplify your configuration later. -- David Winslow OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Smitha V <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Which database does the Geonode use? > > -- > Regards > Smitha V > MT2009149 > IIITB > >
