On Oct 1, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Stanley Iriele <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Rtree is 100 to,es faster than couchdb" (Is “to,es” a mathematical term or just a typo for “times”? ;-) I think this comparison is apples vs. oranges, as R-tree is a data structure while CouchDB is a program. There is a geospatial index extension for CouchDB (https://github.com/couchbase/geocouch/) which likely uses R-trees internally; if you need to do lots of fast range searches (in one or more dimensions) it would be a good idea to try it out. —Jens
