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minus-squarekeccsx@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoAren’t time series databases like Prometheus pretty good at storing this kind of data?
minus-squarenik9000@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoI don’t believe Prometheus supports geospatial data. Two minutes of googling though, so I could be wrong.
minus-squarekeccsx@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoThey’re just storing doubles in their own format too. I’m not sure if they even need any spatial lookups on the data, they didn’t mention anything about that in the article. Maybe they do that in-memory?
Aren’t time series databases like Prometheus pretty good at storing this kind of data?
I don’t believe Prometheus supports geospatial data. Two minutes of googling though, so I could be wrong.
They’re just storing doubles in their own format too. I’m not sure if they even need any spatial lookups on the data, they didn’t mention anything about that in the article. Maybe they do that in-memory?