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Worth pointing out that RDS includes PostGIS, which is good since you can't poke the DB server directly. Although I am sympathetic to the blog post, since PostG
by beering 7y ago
Worth pointing out that RDS includes PostGIS, which is good since you can't poke the DB server directly. Although I am sympathetic to the blog post, since PostGIS is overkill in complexity for simple use cases like a store locator.
- redis_mlc 7y agoRedis has GIS features built-in for store locator type calculations, so that's another option: https://redislabs.com/redis-best-practices/indexing-patterns/geospatial/ https://redislabs.com/redis-best-practices/indexing-patterns... Here's a couple Lyft talks: Redis at Lyft: 1,000 Instances (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4WspAKekqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4WspAKekqM Geospatial Indexing: The 10 Million QPS Redis Architecture Powering Lyft (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSFWlF96Sds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSFWlF96Sds (2017)