[Geoserver-users] GeoServer without PostGIS, is it a good idea?

2015-06-24 Thread Peter Kovac
Dear GeoServer users, my company develops systems in meteorology, climatology, radiation monitoring etc. It's mostly data collection, storing and later retrieval. Our customers started to demand maps, recently. What we need is a map client serving customers' data, both rasters (e.g. forecasts

Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer without PostGIS, is it a good idea?

2015-06-24 Thread Phil Scadden
We do have a small POSTGis instance, used largely for project level databases as opposed to corporate level, but most of what we serve through geoserver is coming from the corporate Oracle database. Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy

Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer without PostGIS, is it a good idea?

2015-06-24 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Peter, your proposal to use a PostGIS instance on the same server as GeoServer is what I know as the Forward Cache Pattern: https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=forward%20cache%20pattern http://flylib.com/books/en/2.79.1.86/1/ Is your spatial data service read-only? How fresh does the data need to

Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer without PostGIS, is it a good idea?

2015-06-24 Thread Chris Snider
Software Engineer Intelligent Software Solutions, Inc. -Original Message- From: Peter Kovac [mailto:peter.ko...@microstep-mis.sk] Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 5:24 AM To: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer without PostGIS, is it a good idea? Dear

Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer without PostGIS, is it a good idea?

2015-06-24 Thread David Collins
Hello, Peter. My own personal experience ... We started off connecting Geoserver to MS SQL Server tables to deliver KML to Google Earth. This was because SQL Server was a corporate direction, and consequently our data warehouse sits in SQL Server. I was aware that performance was worse than