Hi,

I also made a pull request in GeoServer for a community module that will 
integrate the MBTiles store:
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/1634

Regards,

Le mercredi 08 juin 2016 à 18:00 +0100, Nuno Oliveira a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> The proposal has been added to GeoWebCAche wiki:
> https://github.com/GeoWebCache/geowebcache/wiki/MBTiles-BlobStore
> 
> I just made a pull request for this work:
> https://github.com/GeoWebCache/geowebcache/pull/388
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nuno Oliveira
> 
> Le jeudi 19 mai 2016 à 11:00 +0100, Nuno Oliveira a écrit :
> > Hi all, 
> > sorry for the cross posting.
> > 
> > We would like to add MBTiles support to GWC. 
> > Follows a description of the work with the main issues\limitations.
> > 
> > I would like to have community feedback on this, by the way is there a 
> > better way to propose this work ?
> > 
> > * MBtiles and SQLitle *
> > 
> > MBtiles is a specification that describe how to store tiles in an SQLite 
> > database, this will allow us to store many tiles in a single
> > SQLite
> > file avoiding us file systems headaches: 
> > https://github.com/mapbox/mbtiles-spec/blob/master/1.1/spec.md.
> > 
> > We can rely on GeoTools gt-mbtiles module for reading and writing MBTiles, 
> > this way most of the work of implementing this blobstore will
> > be
> > managing SQLite connections and SQLite files.
> > 
> > SQLite files cannot be managed as simple files. When connections to an 
> > SQLite database are open we should not delete, move or switch the
> > associated file. Databases files can be filled with "empty space" after 
> > deleting an huge amount of data or can become fragmented after
> > frequent inserts, updates or delete operations. 
> > 
> > SQLite documentation warns us against putting databases files on a shared 
> > file system if multiple process need access to it (which is
> > our
> > case). Unless we can rely on a distributed lock mechanism SQLite databases 
> > files should not be used with shared stores.
> > 
> > * VACUUM and DiskQuota *
> > 
> > To remove the fragmented space (or the empty space), the VACUUM command 
> > needs to be executed. Although, performing a VACUUM command as a
> > few
> > drawbacks:
> > 
> >     - During a VACUUM twice the size of the original database file is 
> > required in disk.
> >     - During the VACUUM operation no access to the database is allowed.
> >     - The VACUUM operation copies the whole database which can take minutes.
> > 
> > For these reasons the VACUUM command cannot  be performed after each 
> > operation. When possible we will avoid creating fragmented space.
> > For
> > example, during a truncate operation we may prefer remove a whole SQLilte 
> > file instead of deleting part of is content. Another
> > consequence
> > of the fragmented space is that DiskQuota will not be compatible with this 
> > blobstore.
> > 
> > * MBTiles Granularity *
> > 
> > Reading and writing tiles on an SQLite database will be slower than writing 
> > on a file system but will allow us to avoid file system
> > headaches. In order to limit the amount of contention on each single 
> > MBTiles file we will allow users to decide the granularity of the
> > files
> > so that instead of having a single file for each single layer we will allow 
> > users to have more granularity.
> > 
> > MBTiles force us to have at least a file per layer and format. If we want 
> > to support more CRSs we will also need a file for each CRSs.
> > By
> > configuration it will be possible to configure the granularity  of the 
> > database files. By default we will have a granularity per layer,
> > crs,
> > format and zoom level. As an instance something like this could be offered:
> > 
> >     <blobstore>
> >        <file>/path/to/{grid}/{dim}/{tileset}/{z}/{x}-{y}.sqlite</file>
> >        <xcount>1000</xcount>
> >        <ycount>1000</ycount>
> >     </blobstore>
> > 
> > In this case we should include the {x}, {y} and {z} replacements in the 
> > template determining the file to use. In the previous example,
> > tile
> > (z,x,y)=(15,3024,1534) would be stored in a file named 
> > /path/to/g/mytileset/15/3000-1000.sqlite3 and tile (5,2,8) would be stored 
> > in a
> > file
> > named /path/to/g/mytileset/5/0-0.sqlite3.
> > 
> > With more databases files we have more performance but we will have also 
> > more files to manage on the file system. In addition we can
> > couple
> > this with the in-memory cache in order to improve tile serving performance.
> > 
> > * Connection Pooling and Performance *
> > 
> > SQLite allow multiple readers but only allow one writer at the time which 
> > will block the entire database. At most only one connection
> > should
> > be open to each SQLite database, the total number of open connections is 
> > limited by the number of open files allowed by the OS (in linux
> > this is controlled by the ulimit). A connection pool that will control the 
> > number of open connections and that will be responsible to
> > manage
> > the connections will be implemented.
> > 
> > * Replace Operation *
> > 
> > As said before, if the cache is running we cannot simply switch SQLite 
> > files, we need to make sure that all connections are closed. A
> > replace operation will be created for this propose. The replace operation 
> > will first copy the new file side by side the old one, then
> > block
> > the requests to the old file, tear down the store, delete the old one, 
> > rename the new file to current one, reopen the new db file and
> > start
> > serving requests again. Should be almost instant. A REST entry point for 
> > this operation will be created (with the possibility to send
> > the
> > new file with the request).
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
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